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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

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Great men have always had dogs.

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Youth without faith is a day without sun.

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Excess always carries its own retribution.

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Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

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Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

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Excess always carries it's own retributions.

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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

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There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

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The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

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A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when…

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In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of…

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I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable…

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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you,…

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A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence…

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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion…

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Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good…

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Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish…

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The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable…

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The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important…

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Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of…

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In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of…

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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his…

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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit…

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If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method…

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“Her life had been altogether artificial; she had always been a great garden lily in a hot-house, she had never known what…

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the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled.…

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Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which…

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“She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor. Any other thing…

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Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the…

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Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens…

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“In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?…

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Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

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