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men feet sick
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
liberty trouble despotism
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
love love-is
We love because we love.
pride men may
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
philosophical men political
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.
women wife rooms
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
communication inspiration past
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.
heart climbing hatred
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
marriage husband fun
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
marriage vexation virtue
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
history principles events
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
believe i-believe i-believe-in
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
wretched
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
funny dog house
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.