"If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly."
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"[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity."
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"Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see."
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"Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping."
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"There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance."
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"In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing."
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"Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die."
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"Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other."
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"People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments."
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"O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness."
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"Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment."
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"The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions."
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"Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood."
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"In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics."
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"To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time."
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"And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth."
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"Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit."
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"If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence."
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"When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars."
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"Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use."
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