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Beauty is only truly irresistible when it shows us something less transitory than itself; when it makes us dream of that which charms life beyond the fugitive moment which sees us. It is necessary for the soul to feel it when the senses have perceived it. The soul never wearies; the more it admires, the more it is exalted. - [Beauty] It is not virtuous women who are so ready to report suspicion of their sisters. - [Gossip] The heart echoes the words of love. - [Heart] Those are poets who write thoughts as fragrant as flowers, and in as many-colored words. - [Poetry] Virtue must be the result of self-culture; the gods do not take pupils. - [Virtue]
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