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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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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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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.
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