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

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

" Conscience is God present in man. "

" The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. "

" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "

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

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" Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. "

" Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. "

" What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. "

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

" How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. "

" 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. "

" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "

" Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. "

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" The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. "

" It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. "