The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHow many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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