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" A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. "
Work
Child
Honesty
" A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. "
Work
Child
Man
" A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. "
Man
More
Radical
" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "
Grain
Poetry
Season
" An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. "
Sacrifice
Glory
Death
" A selfish man is a thief. "
Man
Thief
Selfish
" But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. "
Spirit
Greed
Privilege
" But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. "
Calm
Women
Sweet
" Charm is a product of the unexpected. "
Unexpected
Product
Charm
" Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright. "
Humanity
Talent
Shine
" Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. "
God
Man
Human Being
" Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. "
Men
Equilibrium
Character
" Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. "
Strive
Prevail
Achieve
" Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. "
Generosity
Earth
Happiness
" He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. "
Pair
He
Torch
" He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical. "
Depth
Call
Who
" He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. "
Wishes
Trust
Either
" He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief. "
Owes
Who
Thief
" If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. "
Lesson
Will
Life
" In truth, men speak too much of danger. "
Too Much
Danger
Truth
" It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. "
Sin
Doing
Capable
" It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. "
Make
Necessary
Virtue
" It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. "
Speak
Liberty
You
" It is the duty of man to raise up man. "
Raise
Up
Man
" Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. "
Glory
Serve
Risks
" Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. "
Hypocrisy
Think
Speak
" Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. "
Air
Life
Liberty
" Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. "
Ideas
Speed
Obstacles
" Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world. "
Men
Teach
World
" Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. "
Must
Duty
He
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