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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. - [Error] Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. - [Advice] Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. - [Criticism] Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - [Genius : Talent] Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. - [Doubt] Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. - [Dreams] Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. - [Happiness] Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. - [Happiness] Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh; that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty; of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. - [Heroism] In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. - [Health] It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief: it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. - [Grief] Knowledge, love, power,--there is the complete life. - [Life] Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. - [Genius] Liberty, equality,--bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness. - [Justice] Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. - [Duty] Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty. - [Duty] Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage. - [Evil] Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being. - [Order] Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. - [Order] Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. - [Duty] Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. - [Criticism] The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection. - [Love] Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment. - [Ideas] To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. - [Genius] To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. - [Habit] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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