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None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
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