The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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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 one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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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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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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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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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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