It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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

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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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