“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
Forgiveness“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.”
Great“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
Forgiveness“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”
Love“It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
Love“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
Change“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
Great“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”
Men“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
Great“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.”
Death“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”
Age“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.”
Power“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”
Best“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.”
Men“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”
Design“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”
Alone“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
Friendship“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.”
Good“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
Fear“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
Men“Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.”
Great“Taste may change, but inclination never.”
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