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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

An army is a strange composite masterpiece, which strength results from an enormous sum total of utter weaknesses. Thus only can we explain a war waged by humanity against humanity in spite of humanity.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.