"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
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"Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom."
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"Living requires but little life; doing requires much."
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"Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark."
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"Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue."
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"Ask the young. They know everything."
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"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."
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"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
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"A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will."
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"We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness."
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"I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young."
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"Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen."
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"You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else."
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"There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard."
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"To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it."
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"When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion."
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"The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning."
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"The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections."
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"Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven."
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"In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition."
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