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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

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We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates what is useful to it and rejects that which would harm it.

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Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

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No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Diplomat

Born: April 1st, 1753

Died: February 26th, 1821

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