When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
MADAME DE STAELThat 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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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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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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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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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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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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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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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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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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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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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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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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