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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

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"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

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I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?

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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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