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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

~ Victor Cousin

Against Development Equal Equal Right Equity Eternal Faculties Free Impartial Laws Men Nature Protection Reason Right State Things True

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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

~ Victor Cousin

Certain Certain Way Exploited Export Historical Home Idea Make Must People Realize Sufficiently Tour Truly War Way World

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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

~ Victor Cousin

Ignorance Misery Primary Primary Source Source Vice

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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

~ Victor Cousin

Beautiful Cannot Good Holy Itself Leads Only Useful Way

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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

~ Victor Cousin

Merely Nothing Philosophy True

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28 November, 1792

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14 January, 1867

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