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care cost longing
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
dream inspire misfortunes
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
atheism thanks century
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
strong queens prayer
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.
pride men causes
Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.
suffering doubt doe
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
son men mistress
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.
men despair sauntering
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
occupation twins born
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
spirit vivacity
Vivacity is the health of the spirit.
half virtue
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
husband government faults
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
feelings ignorant pieces
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
clouds veils
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.