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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
Man
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Marriage
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
Happiness
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
Friendship
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
Friendship
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."
Love
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
Fame
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
Politics
"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."
Success
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
Life
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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Personal Development
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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Personal Development
"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Personal Development
"Conscience is God present in man."
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Personal Development
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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Personal Development
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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Personal Development
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development
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