"Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?"
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"All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time."
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"He did not study God; he was dazzled by him."
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"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
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"Revolution is the larva of civilization."
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"What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain."
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"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."
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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
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"Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again."
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"I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself."
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"Press on! A better fate awaits thee."
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"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."
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"He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory."
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"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."
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"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"
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"To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders."
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"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."
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"If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow."
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"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions"
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"I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion."
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