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Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning. - [Children] Light is, as it were, a divine humidity. - [Light] Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark. - [Words] Living requires but little life; doing requires much. - [Action] Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. - [Logic] Logic works; metaphysic contemplates. - [Logic] Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. - [Speech] Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective. - [Maxims] Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. - [Mediocrity] Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force. - [Duty] Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions. - [Mind] Misery is almost always the result of thinking. - [Misery] Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved. - [Moderation] Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. - [Monuments] National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. - [Literature] Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. - [Necessity] Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader. - [Authorship] Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. - [Poetry] Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. - [Virtue] Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! - [Excess] Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. - [Old Age] Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. - [Age] Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. - [Age] One can with dignity be wife and widow but once. - [Wives] One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men." - [Blushes] Displaying page 4 of 9 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9
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