You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
Living requires but little life; doing requires much.
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
Everything that is exact is short.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.
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