Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary situations.
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
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In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
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Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.
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Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
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All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body.
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Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
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Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
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A scholar knows no boredom.
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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