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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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France is great because she is France.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

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