He caught glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.

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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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My friends, remember this: there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

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