We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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