"Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them."
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"He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear."
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"Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits."
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"Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation."
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"Is a faith without action a sincere faith?"
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"I can hear those glances that you think are silent."
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"You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth."
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"He who has far to ride spares his horse."
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"Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"Often it is fatal to live too long."
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"Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!"
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"Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes."
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"When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?"
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"If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything."
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"Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before."
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"Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!"
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"Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?"
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"Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?"
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"A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury."
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