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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

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To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

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Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

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It is the duty of man to raise up man.

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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

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If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

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To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

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One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

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The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

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