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> [For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/for-thirty-centuries-from-her-sacred-seat-the-cat-looked-down-and/)

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## More by Hippolyte Taine

> [There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/there-are-four-varieties-in-society-the-lovers-the-ambitious/)

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> [The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/the-more-i-study-the-things-of-the-mind-the-more-mathematical-i-find/)

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> [Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/four-varieties-in-society-lovers-the-ambitious-observers-and-fools/)

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> [After the collection of facts, the search for causes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/after-the-collection-of-facts-the-search-for-causes/)

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> [History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/history-is-nothing-but-a-problem-of-mechanics-applied-to-psychology/)

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> [“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/not-only-does-the-state-do-the-work-badly-on-a-domain-not-its-own/)

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> [For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/for-thirty-centuries-from-her-sacred-seat-the-cat-looked-down-and/)

[Hippolyte Taine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hippolyte-taine/)

> [We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/we-study-ourselves-three-weeks-we-love-each-other-three-months-we/)

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> [Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/man-may-be-considered-as-a-superior-species-of-animal-that-produces/)

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> [In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/in-the-stormy-current-of-life-characters-are-weights-or-floats-which/)

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> [Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/change-a-virtue-in-its-circumstances-find-it-becomes-a-vice-change-a/)

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> [The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/the-search-for-causes-must-come-after-the-collection-of-facts/)

[Hippolyte Taine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hippolyte-taine/)

> [His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/his-tongue-is-by-turns-a-sponge-a-brush-a-comb-he-cleans-himself-he/)

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> [There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/there-are-as-many-kinds-of-modesty-as-there-are-races-to-the-english/)

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> [The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/the-production-of-a-work-of-art-is-determined-by-the-material-and/)

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