“Flat ubi vult”

“Djali trotted along behind them, so overjoyed at seeing Gringoire again that she constantly made him stumble by affectionately putting her horns between his legs. 'That's life,' said the philosopher, each time he narrowly escaped falling flat on his face. 'It's often our best friends who cause our downfall.”

“La guerre, c'est la guerre des hommes; la paix c'est la guerre des idées.”

“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.”

“winter always carries with it something of our sadness; then April came, that daybreak of summer, fresh like every dawn, gay like every childhood; weeping a little sometimes like the infant that it is. Nature in this month has charming gleams which pass from the sky, the clouds, the trees, the fields, and the flowers, into the heart of man.”

“Happiness wishes everybody happy.”

“God knows better than we do what we need.”