Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERTPleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Space is the stature of God.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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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 direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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