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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. - [Discovery] All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken. - [Distinction] Constancy is the chimera of love. - [Constancy] Courage is adversity's lamp. - [Courage] Despair is the greatest of our errors. - [Despair] Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. - [Distrust] Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. - [Glory] Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love. - [Hatred] Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises. - [Hope] In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. - [Greatness] It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciate him. - [Critics] It is untrue that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality; its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. - [Equality] Jealousy is the paralysis of love. - [Jealousy] The idea of bringing all men on an equality with each other has always been a pleasant dream; the law cannot equalize men in spite of nature. - [Democracy] The law cannot equalize men in spite of Nature. - [Communism] To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die. [Fr., Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.] - [Life] We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts. - [Contentment] Wit does not take the place of knowledge. - [Wit] Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] - Pensees Diverses (no. 372, Gilbert's ed., 1857, vol. I, p. 475) [Philosophy] If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good. - Reflections and Maxims [Government : Vice] The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs.] - Reflexions (200) [Work] Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] - Reflexions (390) [Idleness] Patience is the art of hoping. [Fr., La patience est l'art d'esperer.] - Reflexions (CCLI) [Patience] The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little. [Fr., Le sot est comme le peuple, qui se croit riche de peu.] - Reflexions (CCLX) [Folly] We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men. [Fr., Il faut tout attendre et tout craindre du temps et des hommes.] - Reflexions (CII) [Fear] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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