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| There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?'' |
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| There is a deportment, which suits the figure and talents of each person; it is always lost when we quit to assume that of another |
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| Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. |
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| To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know |
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| To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence |
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| To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties |
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| To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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| True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes |
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| Truth is no road to fortune |
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| Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. |
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| War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and state; and individuals are enemies only accidentally: not as men, nor even as citizens: but as soldiers; not as members of their country, but as its defenders |
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| Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything. |
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| We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. |
| Education; Gifts; Graduation; Tolerance |
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| We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. |
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| We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. |
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| We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced |
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| We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. |
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| What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? |
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