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Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

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