'Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas' From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.
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The Bible is not merely a bookit is a living power.... Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army.... The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.Napoléon Bonaparte
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
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The only true conqueststhose that awaken no regrets are those obtained over our ignorance.
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus - Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported
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