![The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.
[Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]](/fotos/9d/9daf1d8c778c260387913cbf08fb8e19.webp)
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Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
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Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.
