The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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