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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

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A library implies an act of faith.

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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To love another person is to see the face of God.

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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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No one can keep a secret better than a child.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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