Quotes 61 till 71 of 71.
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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.
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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
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To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
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True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
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We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
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