1 - The privileges of beauty are immense. It influences even those who fail to notice it.

2 - One must do today what everyone else will do tomorrow.

3 - The verb "to love" is difficult to conjugate: its past is not simple, its present is only indicative, and its future is always conditional.

4 - Find first, seek after.

5 - The older I get, the more I realize that what never fades are dreams.

6 - Dreams are the literature of sleep.

7 - Italians are cheerful Frenchmen.

8 - Science only serves to verify the discoveries of instinct.

9 - Nothing bold exists without disobedience to rules.

10 - The less an artwork is understood, the more slowly it unfolds its petals, and the longer it takes to wither.

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