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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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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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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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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

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