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" Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. "

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" Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. "

" 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.' "

" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "

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

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" A library implies an act of faith. "

" Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. "

" Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. "

" Genius: the superhuman in man. "