Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons.


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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE
I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY
I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND