COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
|
|
Home Page |
GIGA Quotes |
Biographical Name Index |
Chronological Name Index |
Topic List |
Reading List |
Site Notes |
Crossword Solver |
Anagram Solver |
Subanagram Solver |
LexiThink Game |
Anagram Game |
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues. - [Conversation] Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause. - [Hatred] To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. - [Self-knowledge] Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. - [Gravity] True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw. - [Love] True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment. - [Philosophy] True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon. - [Worth] Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all. - [Indifference] Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. - [Secrecy] Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. - [Malice] Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. - [Vanity] Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise! - [Weakness] What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought to ask himself often. - [Obligation] What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility. - [Soul] What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible? - [Physiognomy] Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love. - [Humility] Where pride begins, love ceases. - [Pride] Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. - [Boasting] Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind. - [Eccentricity] Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little. - [Curiosity] Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. - [Gifts] Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. - [Eyes] Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. - [Genius] Who makes quick use of the moment, is a genius of prudence. - [Diligence] Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. - [Joy] Displaying page 7 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8
Support GIGA. Buy something from Amazon. |
|