“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people”
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“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people”
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for”
“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself”
“The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married”
“Age considers; youth ventures”
“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver”
“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty”
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ”
“I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up”
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself”
“At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people”
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people”
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered”
“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal”
“Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel”
“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives”
“A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him consider.”