Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections.
("Les Miserables")
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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