Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. |
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. |
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence |
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. |
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time |
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason |
Prejudices are the props of civilization |
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys |
Sin is whatever obscures the soul. |
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death |
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death |
Solitude is bearable only with God |
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. |
The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action |
The color of truth is gray |