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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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

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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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