It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire
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- What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
- We are rarely proud when we are alone.
- Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
- Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.