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- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: French statesman
- Maurice Maeterlinck: Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911)
- Maurice Blanchot: French writer and philosopher
- Maurice Chevalier: French actor and comedian
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
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It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
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The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
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There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
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