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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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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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