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Conscience is God present in man.

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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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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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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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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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