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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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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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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
from the book "" by Victor Hugo
These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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