"Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light."
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"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."
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"Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries."
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"No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature."
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"He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars."
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"Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways."
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"Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?"
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"There shall be no slavery of the mind."
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"If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother."
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"Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties."
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"From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought."
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"There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart."
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"A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in."
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"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them."
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"Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs."
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"A great artist is a great man in a great child."
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"Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls."
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"A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon."
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"Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men"
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"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"
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