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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. Napoleon Bonaparte
Constantly Consult Opinion Public Should Public Opinion Thermometer Monarch
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. Paul Gauguin
Stupidity Ourselves Never Know Until Really
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. Pierre Bonnard
Art Pleasure Draw Strongly Your Paint Express
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Pierre Corneille
Happiness Sad Sadness Our Never Perfection Most Mixed Taste Successes Fortunate
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love Together Love Is World Synthesis Draws Fact Affinity Links In Fact Which Agent Elements Universal
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Happy Words Unhappy Mind Whatever Own Live Consists Admit More Self True Feel Longer Importance Making Making Up Up Repose Being Which Being Happy Mean Meaning Meaning Of Usual
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Rene Descartes
Needs Sense Nothing Distributed More No-One He Fairly Than Common Common Sense Thinks
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes
Dreams Am Same Accustomed Same Things Awake Things Lunatics Imagine Sleep
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing. Rene Girard
You Doing The Right Thing Will Party Believe Right Thing Scapegoat Someone Because Doing The Right Thing Aware Right Thing Third
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.' Sarah Bernhardt
You Care Mind Wilde Smoke dont Care Burn Sarah Oscar Oscar Wilde
Humility is attentive patience. Simone Weil
Patience Humility Attentive
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir
You Victory Long Live Defeat Every Enough See Turns
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. Simone de Beauvoir
Man Will Made Power Destroy Fact Point He Him Terrifying Always Idols However His Subordinate May Them Why
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. Simone de Beauvoir
Man Woman Inferiority Society Destroying Superiority Only She Male Inferior Being Away
With only one bag, you can change your outfit completely. Sonia Rykiel
You Change Outfit Only Bag Your
I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love. Thérèse of Lisieux
Love Heart Church Had Understood Burning
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. Victor Hugo
Love Nature Soul Love Is Paradise Atmosphere Itself Celestial Same Romantic Breathing Portion
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Victor Hugo
Genius Seen Whatever Mediocrity Too Everything Lofty Easy Admire About Horror Sacred Hills Well Masterpiece Mountain Grand Appalling Assembly Near
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo
Thoughts Soul Whatever Posture Knees Prayers Which Body Moments
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. Victor Hugo
Prevent River Reaction Does Current Going Which Against Boat Flowing
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. Victor Hugo
Life Death Future Faith Great Me Soul Heart Grief Speak Light Mind Daughter Believe Otherwise Our Saw Future Life Touched Could Open Well Sorrows How Revelations Which Us
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Time World Nothing Else Idea Powerful Come Armies Whose
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo
Love Man Girl First Young Symptom Timidity Young Man Boldness
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Voltaire
Religion Wise Mother Long Daughter Too Earth Astrology Astronomy Mad Superstition Daughters Dominated
We are rarely proud when we are alone. Voltaire
Alone Rarely Proud
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. Voltaire
Religion Power Lost Those Never Well Understood Truths Reason Who
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