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Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things, degenerates in the hands of man
We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux
To live is not merely to breathe: it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, senses, faculties, of all of our parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
To endure is the first thing a child ought to learn, and that which he will have most need to know
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason
The world of reality has its limits, the world of imagination is boundless
The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it
The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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