When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
MADAME DE STAELWhen one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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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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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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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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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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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 mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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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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Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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