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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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Progress is the life-style of man.

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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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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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Another story must begin!

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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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What makes night within us may leave stars.

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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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Love is reducing the universe to one being.

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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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