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- This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies…
- Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend,…
- Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art…
- First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
- Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
- Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
- We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
- There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
- Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
- Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those…
- I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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