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" Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? "

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" Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. "

" 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. "

" Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. "

" Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. "

" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "

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

" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "

" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "

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

" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. "

" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "

" Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. "

" Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. "

" Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. "

" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "

" Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. "

" 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. "

" Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. "

" To think of shadows is a serious thing. "

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" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "

" There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. "

" Genius: the superhuman in man. "

" The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. "