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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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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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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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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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

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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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