If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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