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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

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Loving is half of believing.

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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

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He who despairs is wrong.

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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