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The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

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

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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We are for religion against the religions.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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

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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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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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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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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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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

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