Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that ...
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No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the his...
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As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.
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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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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...
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, full of light...
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Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras, had not even noticed ...
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but tha...
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilizati...
