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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.


Auguste Comte

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COMTE DE SALVANDY Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
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COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
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COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN War is the national industry of Prussia.
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I am still progressing.
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR Ni dieu ni maître!

(Neither God nor master)

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EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER To think is to say no
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ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.
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CHARLES-AUGUSTE DE BERIOT Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change ...
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COMTE D'ARTOIS (LATER CHARLES X) Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, n...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necess...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS That which is not worth speaking they sing. [Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Everything ends with songs. [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
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