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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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