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- The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
- Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made.…
- Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health,…
- From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and…
- The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as…
- Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and…
- When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer…
- We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
- There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;…
- It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.
- Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an…
- The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.
- It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men,…
- Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the…
- Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not…
- He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then…
- The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to…
- All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
- We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.
- Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
- The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
- Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.
- Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
- The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things
- Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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