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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

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