Concepción Arenal Quotes

Boredom is a disease of the understanding that only happens to the idle.

The poor ruin themselves the moment they cease to be sober.

Society cannot, in justice, prohibit the honest exercise of their faculties to half of the human gender.

Love lives more from what it gives than from what it receives.

Love is to the child as the sun is to the flowers; bread alone is not enough for him: he needs caresses to be good and strong.

It's rare, very rare, for anyone to fall into the abyss of disillusionment without having voluntarily approached the shore.

Would the poor be what they are, if we were what we should be?

Great egoists are the stock of great villains.

Compassion, always good, is in many cases the heavenly precursor of justice.

The education of women up to this point could be called, without much violence: The art of wasting time.

The knowledge does not seem obligatory except to the one who already knows.

The man who is admired by the mediocre will never be capable of great things.