Paul, Jean quotes
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.Paul, Jean
Idleness
Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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Despair
Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
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Change
The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
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Fear
The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
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Future
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
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God
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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Passion
The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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Medicine
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
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Joy
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
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Laughter
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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Memory
No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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Morality
The look of a king is itself a deed.
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Power
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
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Moderation
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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Planning
The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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Parents and Parenting
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
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Rest
In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
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Tears
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
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Sorrow
Humankind s chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
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Faults
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
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Heroes and Heroism
Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
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Exercise
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Age and Aging
Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
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Variety
Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
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Wit