To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
Feeling loves a subdued light.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.
Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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