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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

~Edgar Quinet

Topics: Fairest Judge Time Toughest

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

~Edgar Quinet

Topics: Bear Composed Fragment Future Humanity Law Moral Ought Past Possesses Present Terms Us Whoever Within World

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

~Edgar Quinet

Topics: Body Both Education Effeminate Mind Weakens

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What we share with another ceases to be our own.

~Edgar Quinet

Topics: Another Ceases Our Own Share

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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

~Edgar Quinet

Topics: Appeared Becomes Discovery Enriched Every First Later New Orthodoxy Sooner Sooner Or Later Stand Still Truth Universal Wishing

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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

~Edgar Quinet

Topics: Certain Enter Intimacy Must People Religion Secret Whole Would You

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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

~Edgar Quinet

Topics: Christian Condemns Depth Discovers Great Infinitely Itself Letter Little Many Much Mysteries Power Science Things

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Historian

Born: February 17th, 1803

Died: March 27th, 1875

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