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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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Kindness and generosity... form the true morality of human actions.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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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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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

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There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

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Pretty women are like sovereigns: one flatters them only through interest.

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