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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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