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" Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. "

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" Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. "

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" Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. "

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" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "

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" My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. "

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" Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. "

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" A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. "

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