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Quotes from Posthumous Manuscripts — Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

1796–1832 France

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Recherché pleasures cause simple pleasures to lose all their attractions.

Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

Suffer slight disagreeables without seeming to perceive them, but repulse decisively any one who evidently intends to injure or humiliate you.

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Employ only expressions of the most perfect propriety.

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Adopt good habits when I change my method of life.

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Question thyself to learn what will please others.

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Show neither passion nor weariness in discussion.

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Abstain from all pleasantry which could wound.

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How much modesty adds to merit! A man of talent who conceals his knowledge is like a branch bending under a weight of fruit.

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I do not know why these two expressions, good sense and common sense, are confounded. There is nothing less common than good sense.

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No useless discourse. All conversation which does not serve to enlighten ourselves or others, to interest the heart or amuse the mind, is hurtful.

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The belief in an all-powerful Being, who loves us and watches over us, gives to the mind great strength to endure misfortune.

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If one could continually satisfy his desires, he would never have time to desire. Happiness then is necessarily composed of alternatives. It could not exist at a constant level.

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Speak to every one of that which he knows best. This will put him at his ease, and be profitable to you.

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Never turn to the past unless to enlighten the future. Regrets are useless.

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Speak little of what you know, and not at all of what you do not know.

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We say that man is an egotist, and nevertheless his sweetest pleasures come to him through others. He only tastes them on condition of sharing them.

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Yield frequently to the first inspiration. Too much meditation on the same subject ends by suggesting the worst part, or at least causes loss of precious time.

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I rejoice for all the misfortunes which might have happened to me, and which I have escaped.

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Liquuefaction of bodies, solidification of liquids, crystallization—are they not forms of combinations of integrant molecules?

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If God is absolutely good, why should He punish the sinner for all eternity, since He does not lead him to good, or give him an example?

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.