"Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."
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"Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison."
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"Kind words produce their images on men's souls."
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"Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you."
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"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
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"Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves."
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"We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers."
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"I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me."
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"A jester, a bad character."
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"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
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"Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny."
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"If you do not love too much, you do not love enough."
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"The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others."
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"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
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"The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times."
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"We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it."
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"Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them."
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"Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant."
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"Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]"
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"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
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