"I am the state."
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Category: General
"The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there."
"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."
"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."
"There is always something new out of Africa."
"It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles."
"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
"Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant."
"Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance."
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."
"Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it."
"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
"France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper."
"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper."
"I am at two with nature."
Category: Nature
"The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection."
"All men by nature desire to know."
"Nature does nothing uselessly."
"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
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