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Charles Peguy Quotes

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

– Charles Peguy

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today’s newspaper.

– Charles Peguy

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

– Charles Peguy

Freedom is a system based on courage.

– Charles Peguy

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

– Charles Peguy

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

– Charles Peguy

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

– Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

– Charles Peguy

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

– Charles Peguy

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