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Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart
Trust not too much to beauty
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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