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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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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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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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