“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
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“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation.”
“Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.”
“Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand.”
“To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.”
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”
“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”
“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
“Men are like that, they can resist sound argument, yet yield to a glance.”
“Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.”