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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.