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.
MADAME DE STAELA religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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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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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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