Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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