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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Toleration is the best religion.

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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