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

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

" Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. "

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

" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. "

" Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "

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

" One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. "

" One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. "

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

" The learned man knows that he is ignorant. "

" To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. "

" Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. "

" It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. "

" 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. "

" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. "

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

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