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" Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. "

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

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" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "

" There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. "

" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "

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

" Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. "

" 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. "

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

" There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. "

" When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. "

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

" There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. "

" The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. "

" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. "

" 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. "

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

" When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. "

" Those who live are those who fight. "

" 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. "

" No one can keep a secret better than a child. "

" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "

" People do not lack strength; they lack will. "

" Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. "

" Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. "

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

" It is by suffering that human beings become angels. "