Dantès Bellegarde Quotes

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To await one's salvation from another but oneself, or to consume oneself in the apprehension of a catastrophe—which only our inaction can make inevitable—is the policy of a people that will die, more speedily perhaps because it will have pronounced its own death sentence.

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In a specific community, general progress will result from the progress accomplished by individuals that form it. In the international society, progress will be the results accomplished by the ensemble of nations that constitute it. To develop maximally, all forces of one's nation—moral, intellectual, economic forces—is to work for the progress and the welfare of humanity in its entirety.

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Intelligence is a flame. The more vivacious it is, the better it shines.

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The interplay of institutions is not... as perfect as one would have desired. The machinery creaks, its springs screech and the principles emerge badly cracked.

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