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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

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

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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

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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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Conscience is God present in man.

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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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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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