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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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

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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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