"By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."
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"Opinion is the queen of the world."
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"Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave"
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"That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]"
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"Law, without force, is impotent."
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"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
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"Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth."
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"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
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"How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals."
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"Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden."
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"May God never abandon me."
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"We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience."
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"There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth."
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"We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects."
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"The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it."
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"Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them."
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"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in."
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"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too."
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"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever."
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"Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion."
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