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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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Progress is the stride of God.

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

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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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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

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Conscience is God present in man.

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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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