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• Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
• Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the…
• Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
• What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
• It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their…
• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever…
• The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
• What we share with another ceases to be our own....
• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or…
• An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
• Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

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