"Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity."
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"In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself."
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"Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom."
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"What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself."
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"Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax."
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"Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better."
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"Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man."
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"Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them."
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"If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds."
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"You want to talk to someone; first open your ears."
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"Everything that is exact is short."
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"All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure."
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"The breath of the mind is attention."
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"Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary."
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"No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments."
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"The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul."
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"One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man."
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"When we love, it is the heart that judges."
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"When you give, give with joy and smiling."
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"The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power."
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