Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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