Badges Quote by Hippolyte Taine

“Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.”

Hippolyte Taine

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There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

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After the collection of facts, the search for causes.

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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

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We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the…

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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their…

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The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

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