In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. … - Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. . . The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

Constitution, France, Government, Inaugurated, Peace, Republic

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Morality is stronger than tyrants.

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It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

Citizens, Country, Enough, Evil, Repair

The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.

Immortality, Months, People, Recognizes, Soul

Happiness is a new idea in Europe.

Europe, Happiness, Idea, Ideas, New Ideas

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. . . The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

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John R. Rice

Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord. . . (see: Matt 7:21-23. ]

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Emily Bronte

Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

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George Jean Nathan

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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Samuel Hahnemann

Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.

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Saint Augustine