"Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing."
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"Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice."
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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
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"We disjoint the mind like the body."
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"We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him."
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"The soul paints itself in our machines."
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"The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart."
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"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."
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"God is the place where I do not remember the rest."
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"Before using a fine word, make a place for it."
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"Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits."
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"I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity."
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"History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable."
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"Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience."
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"One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men."
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"The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it."
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"In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver."
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"Heaven is for those who think of it."
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"Think of the ills from which you are exempt."
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"Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them."
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