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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.