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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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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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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

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The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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