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The law of common sense.
God has prohibited despair.
Feeling loves a subdued light.
Youth should be a savings bank.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
Piety softens all that courage bears.
We are rich only through what we give.
I love victory, but I love not triumph.
The heart has always the pardoning power.
There is a transcendent power in example.
What I value most next to eternity is time.
Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
People read every thing nowadays, except books.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.
The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.