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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows... →
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them... →
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always... →
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own... →
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