La Damnation de Faust quotes

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Phlébas, le Phénicien, pendant quinze jours noyé,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille.
We may be scum, but at least we're la crème de la scum.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Like many other widows, she had an unwholesome wish to marry again.
Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyra ...
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
None but a maid is roused by a love song. And this was a maid, an old maid.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, th ...
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