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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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Love which economizes is never true love.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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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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The more you judge, the less you love.

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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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