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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal

War Me Man Other Side Mine Ruler Though River He Him Stupider Because Quarrel His Than Anything Lives Right

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. Coco Chanel

Future Women Wear No Future Perfume Who

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Care Mind Will Skin Danger Faults Out Has-Been Scar Wounds Taken Like Heal Still Been Left Up Behind After Breaking Again Bursting Them Body Imaginable Defects

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Great thoughts come from the heart. Luc de Clapiers

Love Great Thoughts Heart Come

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. Andre Maurois

Character You Destiny Habit Create Act

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal

Man Cause Evil Single Sit Still Human Inability Room

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Charles de Gaulle

Men Indispensable Full Graveyards

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. Coco Chanel

Truth Instinctive Arouse Times Authenticity Hard Hard Times Desire

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. Marcel Proust

Art Ourselves Emerge Only Sees Through Know Another Person

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. Michel de Montaigne

Life You Value Of Life Will Value Find Lies Tale Days Make Years Depends Whether Length Them Use Your Satisfaction

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night. Napoleon Bonaparte

You Clothes Worries Throw Off Your Night

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Paul Valery

Great Man Gone Others Great Man He Leaves Loss After Who

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Simone de Beauvoir

Art Relationship Job Husband Catch Him Hold

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Victor Hugo

Thanksgiving Prayer You Solitude Thanks Enough Must About Give More Wings Knows Go Than Goes Where Much Your

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Camus

People Cause Innocent Innocent People Deaths Justifies

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide

Art God Better Collaboration Between Does Artist Less

Fashion fades, only style remains the same. Coco Chanel

Fashion Style Only Remains Fades Same

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. Jacques Yves Cousteau

Life Water Forget Cycle

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust

Happiness Grief Mind Sympathy Beneficial Develops Powers Body

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