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The more one judges, the less one loves.

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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

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To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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