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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs sh ...
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. ...
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poiso ...
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
France is a people of the same quality as Greece and Italy. She is Athenian in beauty and Roman in grandeur. Moreover, she is gene ...
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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. ...
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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