Bishop.
Books are cold but safe friends.
But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.
By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.
Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.
Ce sont les quatre avant-gardes du genre humain allant aux quatre points cardinaux du progrès, Diderot vers le beau, Turgot vers l'utile, Voltaire vers le vrai, Rousseau vers le juste.
Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfort...
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither wil...
Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John call...
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.
From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idlen...
Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.
Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy.
God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even...
God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.
Good thoughts have their abysses as well as evil ones.
He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief...
He flew into a rage on every occasion, most frequently when wrong.
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