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“Freedom is a drug that once tasted cannot be forgotten.
“Progress is not the same as justice.
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.
“Only passions, and great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing must be attained.
“Hell is other people.
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are truly good.
“The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power for preservation.
“If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, they would learn as well.
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life.
“Let the equality be established: men and women are two parts of one perfect whole.
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, to truth, we can be deaf.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
“What we call peace is nothing but a temporary truce.
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
“Such a Soul receives all and gives all, because she herself is nothing.
“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint.
“I can resist everything except temptation.