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The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

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To be always ready for war, said Mentor, is the surest way to avoid it.

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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

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God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

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Do not allow yourself to be bewitched by the diabolical attractions of geometry.

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I protest that no one admires Cicero more than I do. He enriches all that he touches.

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Nothing will make us so tender and indulgent to the faults of others as a view of our own.

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In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

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All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

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The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

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How many languish in obscurity, who would become great if emulation and encouragement incited them to exertion!

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God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

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The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything.

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To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

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The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

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Whoever is capable of lying, is unworthy of being reckoned in the number of men; and whoever knows not to be silent, is unworthy of ruling.

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All the human kind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.

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Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

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Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.

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The science of women, as that of men, must be limited according to their powers: the difference of their characters ought to limit that of their studies.

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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

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Do not men die fast enough without being destroyed by each other? Can any man be insensible of the brevity of life? and can he who knows it, think life too long?

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We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in the arms of the All-Powerful.

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O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.

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There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

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Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.

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This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, — the very fashion of which "passeth away."

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Here it is that the Spirit teaches us all truth; for all truth is eminently contained in this sacrifice of love, where the soul strips itself of every thing to present it to God.

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Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

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O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

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