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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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

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Sects differ more in name than tenets.

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

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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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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

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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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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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