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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he...more

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That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was fi...more

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own d...more

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in...more

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At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philos...more

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.