A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

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