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- The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis…
- Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more…
- I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the…
- For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times…
- The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
- As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect…
- There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person…
- But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than…
- The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we…
- A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute,…
- A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a…
- After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
- I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to…
- There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving…
- We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording…
- When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as…
- Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing…
- If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
- In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
- No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden…
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many…
- I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself…
- Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the…
- I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,…
- Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle