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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.

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.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

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.

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

No labor is hopeless.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

Great souls are harmonious.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

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.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

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.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.