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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Topic: Cruelty
Source: None
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Topic: Exaggeration
Source: None
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Topic: Exaggeration
Source: None
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
Source: None
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.
Topic: Inheritance
Source: None
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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?
[Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
Topic: Livery
Source: Physiologie du Mariage (N.Q.S. 5, IV, 499, V, 195)
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Topic: Modesty
Source: None
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Topic: Mothers
Source: None
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Topic: Passion
Source: None
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Topic: Passion
Source: None
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Topic: Pleasure
Source: None
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Topic: Vocation
Source: None
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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces
which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
[Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces
grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans
le ciel.]
Topic: World
Source: Socrate Chretien
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