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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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Toleration is the best religion.

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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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What love commences can be finished by God alone.

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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

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France lost a great novel last night.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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