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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

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They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

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God was bored by him.

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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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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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