It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
Who understands much, forgives much.
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.
The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.
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