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Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
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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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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables)
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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A HOUSE is built of logs and stone, Of piles and post and piers; A HOME is built of loving deeds, That stand a thousand years.
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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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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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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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