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Agénor de Gasparin Quotes

1810–1871 France

Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 – 4 May 1871) was a French statesman and author. He was also an early psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping.

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Our century leans neither toward evil nor toward good: it goes toward mediocrity.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness (1902)

A brute always imposes silence on the delicate.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness (1902)

Absolutism is tolerant, only because it knows itself mighty.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness (1902)

Intellectual progress, separated from moral progress, gives a fearful result: a being possessing nothing but brains.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness (1902)

Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness (1902)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Agénor de Gasparin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.