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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition: never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodopè! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
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Born:
January 30, 1775
Died:
September 17, 1864
(aged 89)
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