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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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Despotism is a long crime.

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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When liberty returns, I will return.

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26th, 1802

Died: May 22nd, 1885

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