Quotes by Alexandre Vinet

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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
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Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
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Liberty is life; slavery is death.
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Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.
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Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.
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God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.