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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26th, 1802

Died: May 22nd, 1885

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