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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

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The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

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We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

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When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

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A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

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Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

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The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

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