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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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Loving is half of believing.

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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

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The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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There are no rules for felicity.

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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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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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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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