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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."
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"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."
Art
"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."
Art
"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
Art
"The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things."
Being
"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
Love
"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"Genius is childhood recalled at will."
Genius
"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
Heaven
"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Love
"I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old."
Society
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