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Great Quotes by Ernest Renan
- Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
- All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
- To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these…
- Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
- The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
- To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than…
- You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one…
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