Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Quotes

• A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Two, World, Limits

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• Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

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  Doubt, Life Is, States

  1788 Paul et Virginie.

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• Patience is the courage of virtue.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Patience, Virtue

  Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1818). “Paul and Virginia: Translated from the French of ...”, p.104

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• Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Daughter, Heaven, Literature

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• The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Christian, Women, Order

  Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE, Henry HUNTER (D.D.) (1830*). “Studies of Nature, translated from the French, ... Carefully abridged, with a copious index, by L. T. Rede”, p.489

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• Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

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  Pain, Sleep, Son

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• If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Punishment, Wish, Tests

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• Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Iron, Age, Experience

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• La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

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  Soul, Solitude, Body

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• La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour inquiet qu'on appelle la vie. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.

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  Son, Night, My Son

  1788 Paul et Virginie.

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• Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Beauty, Generosity, Heroism

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• An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

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  Effort, Virtue, Intention

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• There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

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  Country, Age, Might

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