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Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish... →
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our... →
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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