"All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide."
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"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
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"If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane."
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"It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules."
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"A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature."
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"Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us."
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"There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something."
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"God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment."
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"If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion."
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"Finance is a slave's word."
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"The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude."
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"If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?"
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor."
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"Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity."
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"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
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"Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be."
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"Anticipation and Hope are born twins."
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"There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]"
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"Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity."
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