Charles Peguy Quotes

#1. We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

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#2. Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

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#3. Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

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#4. The references you do not verify are the good ones.

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#5. It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

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#6. What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

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#7. A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

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#8. Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

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#9. The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

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#10. When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

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#11. Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

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#12. Freedom is a system based on courage.

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#13. He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

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#14. It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

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#15. Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

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#16. The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

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#17. I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

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#18. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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#19. We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

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#20. The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

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#21. It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

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#22. When you love someone you love him as he is.

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#23. The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

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#24. Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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#25. The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

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#26. Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

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