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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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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

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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 beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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