"People who are in love suspect nothing or everything."
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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
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"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
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"It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing."
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"Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man"
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"The more you judge, the less you love."
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"Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness."
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"What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk."
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"Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy."
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"A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed."
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"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."
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"God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven."
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"Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right."
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"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."
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"Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns."
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"To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect."
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"When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army"
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
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"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
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"Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!"
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