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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Morality is truth in full bloom.

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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

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