What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude

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What is art? Nature concentrated

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything

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To speak of love is to make love

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To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy

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