When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.Ernest Renan
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He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
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In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
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Man makes holy what he believes.
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