For the first time he looked into his heart and wrote, and thus for the first time he touched the hearts of others; the cold style took fire, and beneath the clumsy periods welled tears.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
inspirational freedom-of-speech
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
faith truth
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.
french revolution men power
style thetimes time
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
character
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
places man
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
friendship
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