To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. Votes: 17
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. Votes: 4
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.... Votes: 2
At twenty every one is republican. Votes: 2
Kindness is virtue itself. Votes: 0
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. Votes: 0
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. Votes: 0
Ink is the transcript of thought. Votes: 0
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs. Votes: 0
Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it. Votes: 0
France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion. Votes: 0
Good manners require space and time. Votes: 0
Fiction is the microscope of truth. Votes: 0
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. Votes: 0
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. Votes: 0
Modesty and dew love the shade. Votes: 0