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1580Bordeaux, France

Every man carries the entire form of the human condition within him.

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I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics; that is my physics.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Bordeaux, France