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• None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles…
• Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.
• No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
• As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
• Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
• Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than…
• The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
• When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
• The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
• I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
• Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

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