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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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We love because we love.

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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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