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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
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In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.