All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.
To love beauty is to see light.
I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.
A society is only strong when it opens the truth up to the bright light of the sun.
As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.
Men press towards the light, not so as to see better, but so as to shine better.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
The light, queen of colours.
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He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.
To a Friend of Light If you want to spare your eyes and your mind, follow the sun from the shadows behind.
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Even the smallest light has its little atmosphere.
Interest blinds some and makes some see.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.