Philosophers and Actresses
A source page for quotes linked to Arsene Houssaye.
“Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.”
“Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?”
“Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.”
“The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.”
“Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.”
“The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.”
“There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.”
“Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.”