God cannot punish man for not believing when he could so easily have enlightened and convinced him.
Quotes from Posthumous Manuscripts — Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
1796–1832 France
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Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)
The truly wise man is he who loves virtue for its own sake.
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Men desire nothing so much as to make themselves envied.
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Do nothing that all the world may not know.
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One should never feign a character that he has not, or affect a character that he cannot sustain.
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It must be that all honest people are in the galleys; only knaves are to be met with elsewhere.
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The pleasures of self-love are the only ones that can really be turned into ridicule.
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The promptitude of resolutions most frequently accords with their justice.
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The strain of suffering causes the mind to decay.
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When discussion degenerates into dispute, be silent; this is not to declare yourself beaten.
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It may sometimes be necessary to yield the right, but how is one to recover it when wanted?
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Plan in the morning the work of the day, and reflect in the evening on what has been done.
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The more nearly an object approaches perfection, the more we notice its slightest defects.
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To neglect the opportunity of an innocent pleasure is a loss to ourselves.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.