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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTAll are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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