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A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us. - [Trifles] All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. - [Evil] All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. - [Hate] All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. - [Intuition] Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave. - [Amusements] Brave deeds are wasted when hidden. - [Bravery] Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine. - [War] Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. - [Egotism] Continued eloquence is wearisome. - [Eloquence] Continuous eloquence wearies. - [Eloquence] Curiosity is but vanity. Oftenest one wishes to know but to talk of it. Otherwise one would not go to sea if he were never to say anything about it, and for the sole pleasure of seeing, without hope of ever communicating what he has seen. - [Curiosity] Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. - [Death] Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant. - [Death] Despite the sight of all the miseries which affect us and hold us by the throat we have an irrepressible instinct which bears us up. - [Misery] Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. - [Earnestness] Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good. - [Evil] Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness. - [Goodness] Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them. - [Extremes] Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony. - [Faith] Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it. - [Fashion] Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. - [Hypocrisy] Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. - [Force] From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage. - [Deformity] Give him the same amount of money every morning that he is likely to win during the day's play on condition that does not gamble, and you will make him thoroughly unhappy. It will perhaps be said that he only cares about the fun of gambling and not about the winnings. But make him play for nothing; he will not get any excitement out of it at all and will merely be bored. This means that he is not for entertainment alone. . . . He must grow exited and fool himself into believing that he would be delighted to win the money that he would hate to be given t him on the condition that he does not gamble. - [Gambling] Great and small suffer the same mishaps. - [Greatness] Displaying page 1 of 6 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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