To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAELLove 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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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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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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Speech happens to not be his language.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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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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