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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
We have our arts, the ancients had theirs.... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
When one man speaks to another man who doesn’t understand him, and when the man who’s speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
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