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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.