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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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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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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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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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Happiness wishes everybody happy.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

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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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