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A despot has always some good moments. - [Despotism] A good imitation is the most perfect originality. - [Imitation] A small number of choice books are sufficient. - [Books] A witty saying proves nothing. - [Wit] A woman can keep one secret,--the secret of her age. - [Secrecy] Adieu, canaux, canards, canaille. - summing up his Impressions de Voyage, on his return from the Netherlands [Cowardice] All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. - [Religion] All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. - [Morality] All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. - [Books] All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. - [Women] And whoever begins by being a dupe ends by becoming a scoundrel. - [Stupidity] Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - [Stupidity] Bring together all the children of the universe, you will see nothing in them but innocence, gentleness, and fear; were they born wicked, spiteful, and cruel, some signs of it would come from them; as little snakes strive to bite, and little tigers to tear. But nature having been as sparing of offensive weapons to man as to pigeons and rabbits, it cannot have given them an instinct to mischief and destruction. - [Children] By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property. - [Appreciation] Character is what nature has engraven in us; can we then efface it? - [Character] Complacency is a coin by the aid of which all the world can, for want of essential means, pay his club-bill in society. It is necessary, finally, that it may lose nothing of its merits, to associate judgment and prudence with it. - [Complacency] Dress changes the manners. - [Dress] Faith is deferential incredulity. - [Faith] Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. - [Fanaticism] Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight. - [Fortune] Friendship is the marriage of the soul. - [Friendship] Friendship, gift of heaven, delight of great souls; friendship which kings, so distinguished for ingratitude, are unhappy enough not to know. - [Friendship] God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - [God] Happiness is a good that Nature sells us. - [Happiness] He whom love guards, is well guarded. - [Love] Displaying page 1 of 6 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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