Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
From Victor Hugo
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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