Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
JOSEPH JOUBERTBe charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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How 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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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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