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• Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
• Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. .…
• An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
• What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
• The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
• Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
• Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
• Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid…
• What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with…
• I love the majesty of human suffering.
• On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
• We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think,…

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