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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

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