“That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.”
“Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.”
“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.”
“The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.”
“Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”
“Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.”
“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.”
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
“Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.”
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
“Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.”
“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”
“When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
“A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.”
“Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.”
“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”
“The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”
“The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
“Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.”
“To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.”
“The more I see of men the more I like dogs.”
“Speech happens to not be his language.”
“Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.”
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