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Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

— Jules Michelet

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The last people in the world in whom the personality would consent to be absorbed into pantheism is the French.

The intimate fusion of races is the identity of our nation, its personality.

France is the daughter of freedom. In human progress, the essential part, the main force, is called man. Man is his own Prometheus.

From India comes to us a torrent of light, a river of Right and Reason.

The history of France begins with the French language. Language is the primary sign of nationality.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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