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 human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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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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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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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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 greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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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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Speech happens to not be his language.
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