Delphine de Girardin Quotes

• For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Happiness, Art, Precious Stones

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• To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Love You, Fire, Idols

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• Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Inner Peace, Eternal

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• The best religion is the most tolerant.

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• There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Beautiful, Women, Clothes

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• Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Jealous, Responsibility, Men

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• Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Infidelity, Degrees

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• Business is other people's money.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Money, People, Saving Money

  "Marguerite Ou Deux Amours". Book by Delphine de Girardin, Volume 2, 1852.

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• Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Years, Age, Twenties

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• Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Love, Men, Ideas

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• Instinct is the nose of the mind.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Intuition, Mind, Noses

  "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 44, 1899.

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• Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Soul, Merit, Noble

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• Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Promise, Republic, Proof

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