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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. - [Liberality] Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures. - [Truth] Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. - [Virtue] Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. - [Virtue] We disjoint the mind like the body. - [Mind] We know God easily, provided we do not constrain ourselves to define Him. - [God] We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. - [Ideas] We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own. - [Argument] We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. - [Mind] We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. - [Friendship] We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. - [Opinion] We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. - [Benevolence] We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. - [Passion] What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself? - [Selfishness] What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. - [Truth] When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. - [Credulity] When my friends are blind of one eye, I look at them in profile. - [Benevolence : Courtesy] When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion. - [Art] When we love, it is the heart that judges. - [Judgment] When you give, give with joy and smiling. - [Gifts] Whence? whither? why? how?--these questions cover all philosophy. - [Philosophy] Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? - [Religion] Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. - [Duty] Woman's grief is like a summer's shower--short as it is violent. - [Grief] Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. - [Words] Displaying page 8 of 9 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9
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