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
