Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLove and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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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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Space is the stature of God.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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