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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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" I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. "

" A library implies an act of faith. "

" Taste is the common sense of genius. "

" We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. "

" The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. "

" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "

" There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. "

" The flesh is the surface of the unknown. "

" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "

" Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. "

" The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. "

" One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. "

" Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. "

" Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. "

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. "

" A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. "

" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. "

" An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. "

" When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. "

" The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. "

" I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "

" A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. "

" Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. "

" A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. "

" Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. "

" No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. "

" To think of shadows is a serious thing. "

" To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. "

" Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. "