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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

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History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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

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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

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