"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

Paul, Jean on Age and Aging
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"Despair is the only genuine atheism."

Paul, Jean on Despair
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"Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once."

Paul, Jean on Exercise
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"Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones."

Paul, Jean on Faults
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"The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger."

Paul, Jean on Fear
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"The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future."

Paul, Jean on The future
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"Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness."

Paul, Jean on God
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"No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one."

Paul, Jean on Heroes and Heroism
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"Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name."

Paul, Jean on Idleness
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"Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs."

Paul, Jean on Joy
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"No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much."

Paul, Jean on Laughter
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"The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress."

Paul, Jean on Medicine
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"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."

Paul, Jean on Memory
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"Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm."

Paul, Jean on Moderation
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"No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons."

Paul, Jean on Morality
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"The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored."

Paul, Jean on Parents and Parenting
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"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."

Paul, Jean on Passion
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"The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made."

Paul, Jean on Planning
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"The look of a king is itself a deed."

Paul, Jean on Power
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"No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned."

Paul, Jean on Rest
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"Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow."

Paul, Jean on Sorrow
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"Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence."

Paul, Jean on Change
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"In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears."

Paul, Jean on Tears
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"Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s."

Paul, Jean on Variety
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"Brevity is the body and soul of wit."

Paul, Jean on Wit
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