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" A war between Europeans is a civil war. "

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" We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. "

" As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. "

" The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. "

" Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. "

" One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. "

" Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. "

" Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. "

" There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. "

" A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. "

" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "

" The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. "

" Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! "

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

" I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. "

" Taste is the common sense of genius. "

" The flesh is the surface of the unknown. "

" To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. "

" Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. "

" A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. "

" Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. "

Doing The Right Thing

" Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. "

" Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. "

" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "

" One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' "

" Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. "

" The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. "

" What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. "

" The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. "

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

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "