Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour inquiet qu'on appelle la vie. Bernstein… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
