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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."
"We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly."
"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."
"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."
"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."
"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."
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