Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAELPrayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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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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Speech happens to not be his language.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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We 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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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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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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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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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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