When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
MADAME DE STAELWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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