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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a ...more

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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering b...more

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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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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

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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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Make thought a whirlwind.

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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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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

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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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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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