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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
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If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
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Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
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