• Virtues

  Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

  4.2 · 17 votes · 100 reads

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• Virtues

  Common sense is calculation applied to life.

  4.5 · 55 votes · 164 reads

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• Virtues

  Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

  4.2 · 58 votes · 8 reads

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• Virtues

  Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

  4.5 · 28 votes · 44 reads

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• Various

  Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

  3.5 · 47 votes · 153 reads

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• Nature

  For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

  4.9 · 31 votes · 41 reads

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• Virtues

  Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

  3.0 · 32 votes · 161 reads

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• Virtues

  He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

  3.6 · 11 votes · 98 reads

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• Feelings

  In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

  4.2 · 58 votes · 161 reads

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• Various

  It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

  3.7 · 43 votes · 184 reads

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• Virtues

  It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

  4.0 · 25 votes · 7 reads

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• Nature

  Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

  3.5 · 54 votes · 36 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

  5.0 · 37 votes · 106 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

  3.8 · 38 votes · 197 reads

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• Various

  Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

  4.6 · 62 votes · 94 reads

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• Various

  Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

  4.9 · 43 votes · 121 reads

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• Society

  So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

  4.8 · 26 votes · 120 reads

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• Virtues

  Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

  4.0 · 45 votes · 87 reads

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• Feelings

  The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

  3.7 · 6 votes · 105 reads

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• Virtues

  The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

  3.6 · 61 votes · 1 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The only substance properly so called is the soul.

  4.9 · 10 votes · 143 reads

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• Virtues

  To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

  3.2 · 47 votes · 134 reads

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• Time

  To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  3.2 · 58 votes · 179 reads

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• Art and Culture

  To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the s

  3.5 · 24 votes · 131 reads

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• Feelings

  To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

  3.2 · 40 votes · 98 reads

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• Society

  To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

  3.3 · 26 votes · 103 reads

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• Virtues

  To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

  3.9 · 53 votes · 199 reads

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• Art and Culture

  We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

  3.4 · 37 votes · 140 reads

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• Feelings

  Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

  4.4 · 20 votes · 2 reads

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• Feelings

  Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

  3.3 · 35 votes · 185 reads

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What they wrote about

• Humankind3 of their quotes
• Character2 of their quotes
• Common Sense2 of their quotes
• Genius2 of their quotes
• Love2 of their quotes
• Passion2 of their quotes