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To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Oh, what company good poets are!

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

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.

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.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

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.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

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.