Sublime

Solitaire, pauvre, libre, indépendant, il n’a de comptes à rendre à personne ; il produit donc une analyse atypique, mais juste.

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual—and, after all, what is an individual?” With a

we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know. Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength,

la seule vraie Amérique est ce pays où vous avez la liberté de choisir le mode de vie qui vous permet de vous passer de toutes ces choses, et où l’État n’essaie pas de vous obliger à soutenir l’esclavage, la guerre et d’autres dépenses superflues qui directement ou indirectement résultent de l’emploi de ces choses.

“I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

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