To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live entirely without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything on this earth is subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
Why worry about what threatens our heads and our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.
Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man? Can the soul be completely changed by its destiny, and turn evil when its fate is evil?
Do not forget, ever, that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.
We should take time to reflect, if we want to be brilliant.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves--say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Providence has done it all... Have I the right to change what He arranges?
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore.
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