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

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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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

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Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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All we are is in the soul.

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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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