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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

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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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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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What makes night within us may leave stars.

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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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

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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

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