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" It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. "
Victor Hugo
Just
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Pleasant
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" Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. "
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" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "
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" There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. "
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" 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. "
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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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" My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. "
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" Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. "
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" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "
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" Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. "
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Puns
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" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "
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" The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. "
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He
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" Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. "
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" I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "
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Art
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" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "
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Forward
Hands
" 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. "
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Man
Liberty
" Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. "
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Men
Day
" People do not lack strength; they lack will. "
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Lack
People
" The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. "
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God
Word
" The learned man knows that he is ignorant. "
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Learned
Man
" Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. "
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Feminine
Forms
" A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. "
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Master
Only
" 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. "
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Man
Intelligence
" The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. "
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Wings
Bird
Illusions
" Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. "
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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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Realize
Over
" It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. "
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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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France
Kings
" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "
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" My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. "
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