Agénor de Gasparin

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“Absolutism is tolerant, only because it knows itself mighty.”

“A brute always imposes silence on the delicate.”

“Our century leans neither toward evil nor toward good: it goes toward mediocrity.”

“Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas.”

“Intellectual progress, separated from moral progress, gives a fearful result: a being possessing nothing but brains.”