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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples. - [Christianity] Disgrace is the synonym of discovery. - [Disgrace] Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. - [Experience] Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. - [Liberty] Happiness seems made to be shared. -Corneille. Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day. - [Happiness] In love matters; keep your pen from paper. - [Letters] Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. - [Love] Memory is what makes us young or old. - [Memory] My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre.] - [Worth] O world, how many hopes thou dost engulf! - [Disappointment] Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. - [Discretion] The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land. - [Devotion] Women are charged with a fondness for nonsense and frivolity. Did not Talleyrand say, "I find nonsense singularly refreshing"? - [Folly] Listen, dying one! There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. [Fr., Ecoute, moribonde! Il n'est pire douleur Qu'un souvenir heureux dans les jour de malheur.] - Le Saule, the opposite of his opinion in his "Un Souvenir" [Sorrow]
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