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We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui. - [Ennui] We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. - [Experience] We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. - [Charity] We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air. - [Strength] We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. - [Character] We expect everything, and are prepared for nothing. - [Anticipation] We forgive too little, forget too much. - [Forgiveness] We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. - [Piety] Weakness is born vanquished. - [Weakness] What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. - [Resignation] When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains. - [Sorrow] When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries? - [Riches] Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation. - [Economy] Years do not make sages; they only make old men. - [Age] Youth should be a savings-bank. - [Youth] Displaying page 5 of 5 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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