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“Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.”
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”
“No matter how imperfect things are, if you’ve got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.”
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
“No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.”
“I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.”
“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.”
“Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.”
