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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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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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Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.