We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAELSearch for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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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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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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Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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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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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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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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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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