Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau quotes
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“The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.”
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“In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.”
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“Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.”
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“Religion is no more national than conscience.”
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“There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.”
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“Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.”
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“Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.”
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“It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!”
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“Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.”
-- Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
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“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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