When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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.
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Close your eyes and you will see.
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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