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To understand everything makes one tolerant.
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Understanding everything makes one very indulgent.
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The last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent...
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We find nothing good in life but what makes us forget it.
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The more I see of other countries, the more I love my own.
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The rules are only barriers to keep children from falling.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a severe lesson.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument.
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant mourning of happiness.
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A man must know how to defy opinion; a woman how to submit to it.
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The pleasures of thought are remedies for the wounds of the heart.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Kindness and generosity... form the true morality of human actions.
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What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
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The sight of such a building is like a ceaseless, changeless melody.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Born:
April 22, 1766
Died:
July 14, 1817
(aged 51)
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