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“He realised that he had exceeded the limits of vengeance, he realised that he could no longer say: ‘God is for me and with me.’”

“The friends whom we have lost do not rest in the earth, they are buried in our hearts, and that is how God wanted it, so that we should always be in their company.”

“For some constitutions work is the cure for all ills.”

“For hearts which have long suffered, happiness is like dew on soil parched by the sun: both heart and earth absorb the beneficial rain as it falls on them, and nothing appears on the surface.”

“I know that the world is a drawing-room from which one must retire politely and honourably, that is to say, with a bow, after paying one’s gaming debts.”

“Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender and open in the heart.”

“No man truly in love ever lets the hands of a clock go peacefully on their way.”

“A crestfallen capitalist is like a comet; he always warns of some great misfortune to come.”

“Every man has a passion gnawing away at the bottom of his heart, just as every fruit has its worm.”