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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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

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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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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

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