Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick
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You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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The world remains ever the same.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they mu...
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Love
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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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