envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

People come around, oh Donald Trump did this or that. I never saw these people before, I don't know who they are.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.