Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
History should be written as philosophy.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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