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Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.
We're not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.