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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

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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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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

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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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France lost a great novel last night.

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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Loving is half of believing.

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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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