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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

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Right is right only when entire.

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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

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