Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one's clothes? Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet? So is he ...who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have su...ited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If all would lead their lives in love like me, Then bloody swords and armor should not be;... No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is asleep. He knows no longer the fatigue of the work of deciding, the work to finish. He sleeps, he has no longer to strain, t...o force himself, to require of himself that which he cannot do. He no longer bears the cross of that interior life which proscribes rest, distraction, weaknesshe sleeps and thinks no longer, he has no more duties or chores, no, no, and I, old and tired, oh! I envy that he sleeps and will soon die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ant's; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from it... to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Our snowstorms as a rule Aren't looked on as man-killers, and although... I'd rather be the beast that sleeps the sleep Under it all, his door sealed up and lost, Than the man fighting it to keep above it, Yet think of the small birds at roost and not In nests...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own... power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous a...nd idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »