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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
It is often our best friends who throw us down.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
What love commences can be finished by God alone.
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
There are things stronger than the strongest man.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.