"Today as in the time of Pliny and……" — Edgar Quinet
"Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle."
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Edgar Quinet
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13 Quotes by Edgar Quinet
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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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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within…
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The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
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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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