{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_7570/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_7570","id":"gutenberg_7570","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7570","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Quotations, French -- Translations into English"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOSMOPOLIS\n\nBy Paul Bourget\n\n\n\n\nConditions of blindness so voluntary\nthat they become complicity\n\nDespotism natural to puissant\npersonalities\n\nEgyptian tobacco, mixed with opium and\nsaltpetre\n\nFollow their thoughts instead of\nheeding objects\n\nHas as much sense as the handle of a\nbasket\n\nHave never known in the morning what I\nwould do in the evening\n\nI no longer love you\n\nImagine what it would be never to have\nbeen born\n\nMediocre sensibility\n\nMelancholy problem of the birth and\ndeath of love\n\nMobile and complaisant conscience had\nalready forgiven himself\n\nNo flies enter a closed mouth\n\nNot an excuse, but an explanation of\nyour conduct\n\nOne of those trustful men who did not\njudge when they loved\n\nOnly one thing infamous in love, and\nthat is a falsehood\n\nPitiful checker-board of life\n\nScarcely a shade of gentle\ncondescension\n\nSufficed him to conceive the plan of a\nreparation\n\nThat suffering which curses but does\nnot pardon\n\nThat you can aid them in leading better\nlives?\n\nThe forests have taught man liberty\n\nThere is an intelligent man, who never\nquestions his ideas\n\nThere is always and everywhere a duty\nto fulfil\n\nThinking it better not to lie on minor\npoints\n\nToo prudent to risk or gain much\n\nWalked at the rapid pace characteristic\nof monomaniacs\n\nWords are nothing; it is the tone in\nwhich they are uttered\n\n\nIf you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation.","title":"Widger's Quotes and Images from Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget: The French Immortals: Quotes And Images","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":270}