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Philosophers call God "the great unknown." "The great mis-known" would be more correct. - [God] Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. - [Sorrow] Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. - [Reputation] Since, in possessing You, we possess all if we had nothing else, and in not possessing You we have nothing if we had all the rest, oh, my God! I will love You that I may possess You upon earth; and I will possess You that I may love You one day in heaven. - [God] Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. - [Solitude] Success causes us to be more praised than known. - [Success] That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good. - [Deception] The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. - [Solitude] The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes. - [Prayer] The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us. - [Historians] The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. - [Friends] The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation. - [Oratory] The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. - [Friendship] "Time restores all things." Wrong! Time restores many things, but eternity restores all. - [Eternity] We love justice greatly, and just men but little. - [Justice] We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend. - [Friends] What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defense or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge. - [Slander] When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. - Meditations of a Parish Priest [Doubt] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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