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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that ...more

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No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the his...more

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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si mêmeIls ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor Sylla ;S'il en demeure dix, je serai le dixième ;E...more

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As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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

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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, full of light...more

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Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras, had not even noticed ...more

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but tha...more

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As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we atta...more