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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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