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Analysis kills spontaneity.
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

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