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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

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Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

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We only understand that which already is within us.

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