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The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day. - [Servility] The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds. - [Motive] The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. - [Prudence] The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. - [Weakness] The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. - [Education] The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick." - [Authorship] There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them. - [Philanthropy] There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. - [Error] There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends. - [Self-love] There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. - [Caprice] There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. - [Loveliness] There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. - [Beauty] Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us. - [Conduct] To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key. - [Preaching] To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. - [Wedlock] True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. - [Courage] We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! - [Hatred] We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. - [Wit] We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it. - [Birth] We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. - [Pleasure] What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion. - [Experience] Without big words, how could many people say small things? - [Blustering] Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. - [Quarrels : Rivalry] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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