“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”
Great“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Love“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”
Great“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.”
Love“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
Equality“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”
Society“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.”
Death“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
Art“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
Women“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
Marriage“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
Peace“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.”
Music“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Art“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
Legal“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”
God“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”
Love“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
Great“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
Men“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”
Politics“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”
Society“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
Great“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
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