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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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What is art? Nature concentrated.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.