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René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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The death penalty has only been perpetuated by a kind of legal crime.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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I do not believe that the art of quotation is within the reach of those small spirits who, finding nothing within themselves, must take everything from others.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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A good action is an insolent lesson for those who do not have the courage to execute it.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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The dream devours existence: that's the good part.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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Institutions go through three periods: that of service, that of privileges, and that of abuse.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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Heaven rarely makes it so that the man who wants and the man who can are born together.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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The independence of thought is the noblest aristocracy.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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The threat of the strongest always makes me stand by the weakest.

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

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The compass to navigate the high seas of marriage has not yet been discovered.

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

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A friend asked me why we don't build cathedrals like the famous Gothic ones nowadays, and I said to him: 'The men of those times had convictions; we moderns have nothing but opinions, and to raise a Gothic cathedral, something more than an opinion is needed'.