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