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

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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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

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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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