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Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,
to all one says, or does, or writes.
We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.
