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Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Freedom is a system based on courage.
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.
The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
When you love someone you love him as he is.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
