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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.
Les aventures de Télémaque (1699)
The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything.
In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
Above all, do not allow yourself to be bewitched by the evil charms of geometry.
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.
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."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God works in a mysterious way in grace as well as in nature, concealing His operations under an imperceptible succession of events, and thus keeps us always in the darkness of faith.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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.
Les aventures de Télémaque (1699)
The whole human race is just a family scattered across the face of the whole earth. All peoples are brothers, and must love each other as such.
The Adventures of Telemachus (1699)
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Why art thou troubled and anxious about many things? One thing is needful — to love Him and to sit attentively at His feet.