Edgar Quinet Quotes

• Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

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• The Bourbon family is a dagger which the foreigner left in the heart of France in 1814: change the haft if you please, gild the blade if you will, the dagger remains a dagger.

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• An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

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• It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

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• Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

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• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

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• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

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• What we share with another ceases to be our own.

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Edgar Quinet (8)

Birth:	17th February, 1803
Death:	27th March, 1875
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Historian, Journalist, Philosopher, Poet, Politician

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Edgar Quinet was born at Bourg-en-Bresse, France. He was a French historian, poet, political philosopher, and journalist. He was elected to the National Assembly in the following year but exercised little influence over his fellow deputies.

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