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

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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