Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERTMisery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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