The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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What we share with another ceases to be our own.Edgar Quinet
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.
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I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
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