"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens……" — George Sand
"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it."
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98 Quotes by George Sand
George Sand has 98 quotes on this site.
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Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is…
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One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double.…
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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and…
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown…
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Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
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Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us…
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all…
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the…
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The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...
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I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent…
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If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans.…
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends…
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I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his…
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number…
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
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