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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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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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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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He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in...more

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Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could ...more

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Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto verso Enjolras che indietreggiava impietrito, gli str...more

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Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

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Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Libe...more

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