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"The Princesse De Cleves" Quotes
"The Princesse de Clèves" explores the themes of love, duty, and societal expectations as it follows the tumultuous emotional journey of a noblewoman in the French court of Henri II.
Quotes
You can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Jealousy is born with love, but does not die with it.
The power of novelty over the mind, and the force of that first impression which the sight of a new object produces.
Grief is a most violent passion; it is the most natural and seems the most excusable.
We are always ready to believe what we wish.
The most dangerous of our calculations are those which we call illusions.
In great minds, the desire for glory is always accompanied by the desire for service.
One of the things that makes our lives so full of complications is that we have to deal with people as they are, not as we would like them to be.
Beauty is an unmerited gift, which is given by chance and not by merit.
We often make mistakes when we think we know more than we do.
