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"Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration."
"When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary."
"Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God"
"Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds."
"Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect."
"It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants."
"He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men."
"The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority."
"Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences."
"If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible."
"He who best knows the world will love it least."
"How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?"
"Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt."
"When women love, they forgive everything..."
"There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it."
"Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed."
"Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness."
"Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating."
"We love because we love."
"[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject."