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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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