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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awo...more

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of...more

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like man...more

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to rig...more

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The life of truth is cold.

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among hi...more

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.