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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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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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Those who live are those who fight.

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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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