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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

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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 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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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

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