Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAELThe sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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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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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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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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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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