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View AuthorThere is so much justice in charity and so much charity in justice that the hope of the day when they are confused does not seem crazy.
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View AuthorBoredom is a disease of the understanding that only happens to the idle.
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View AuthorThe poor ruin themselves the moment they cease to be sober.
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View AuthorSociety cannot, in justice, prohibit the honest exercise of their faculties to half of the human gender.
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View AuthorLove lives more from what it gives than from what it receives.
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View AuthorLove is to the child as the sun is to the flowers; bread alone is not enough for him: he needs caresses to be good and strong.
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View AuthorIt's rare, very rare, for anyone to fall into the abyss of disillusionment without having voluntarily approached the shore.
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View AuthorWould the poor be what they are, if we were what we should be?
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View AuthorGreat egoists are the stock of great villains.
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View AuthorCompassion, always good, is in many cases the heavenly precursor of justice.
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View AuthorThe education of women up to this point could be called, without much violence: The art of wasting time.
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View AuthorThe knowledge does not seem obligatory except to the one who already knows.