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Toleration is the best religion.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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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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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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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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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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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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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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.