Émile de Girardin

Quotes

• “At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive.”
• “Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates the intelligence.”
• “The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire.”
• “Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity.”
• “No faith has triumphed without its martyrs.”
• “Illusions ruin all those whom they blind.”

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