People do not lack strength; they lack will.
From Victor Hugo
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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