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" Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. "

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" This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. "

" We cannot wish for that we know not. "

" To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. "

" When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. "

" Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. "

" Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. "

" It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. "

" One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. "

" It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. "

" The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. "

" It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. "

" The best is the enemy of the good. "

" Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. "

" Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. "

" In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. "

" It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. "

" Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. "

" History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. "

" Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. "

" We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. "

" Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. "

" Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. "

" Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. "

" The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. "

" He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. "

" The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "

" What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. "

" If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. "