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"This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
History

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
Age

"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful."
Truth

"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
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"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."
Courage

"First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it's not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you've forgotten, don't keep anything."
Love

"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."
Mortality

"Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement."
Art

"Genius: the superhuman in man."
Man

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."
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"Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs, doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead."
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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
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"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."
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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."
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"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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