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/ page 263 of 1205 /If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Education
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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate . So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall!
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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