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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

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Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

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