When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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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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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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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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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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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 greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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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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