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The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!

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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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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

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