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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

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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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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

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

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

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