Top 26 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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#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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#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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