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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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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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Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.