Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever cut what you can untie.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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