Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
JOSEPH JOUBERTAsk the young. They know everything.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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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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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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