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"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"

"However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!"

"What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness."

"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."

"The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult to produce and the good easy."
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"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."


"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."


"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."


"In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery."
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