"Virtue is the health of the soul."
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"Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it."
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"The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity."
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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
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"The passions of the young are vices in the old."
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"Tenderness is the rest of passion."
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"When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it."
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"The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity."
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"Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes"
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"Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them."
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"Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant."
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"When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come."
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"The paper is patient, but the reader is not."
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"Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent."
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"Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void."
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"Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life."
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"Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."
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"Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures."
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"Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be."
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"Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre."
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