{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_7584/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_7584","id":"gutenberg_7584","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7584","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: French Literature","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Quotations, French -- Translations into English"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAN \"ATTIC\" PHILOSOPHER\n\nBy Emile Souvestre\n\n\n\n\n\nAlways to mistake feeling for evidence\n\nAmbroise Pare: 'I tend him, God cures\nhim!'\n\nAre we then bound to others only by the\nenforcement of laws\n\nAttach a sense of remorse to each of my\npleasures\n\nBrought them up to poverty\n\nBut above these ruins rises a calm and\nhappy face\n\nCarn-ival means, literally, \"farewell\nto flesh!\n\nCoffee is the grand work of a\nbachelor's housekeeping\n\nContemptuous pride of knowledge\n\nDeath, that faithful friend of the\nwretched\n\nDefeat and victory only displace each\nother by turns\n\nDid not think the world was so great\n\nDo they understand what makes them so\ngay?\n\nEach of us regards himself as the\nmirror of the community\n\nEase with which the poor forget their\nwretchedness\n\nEvery one keeps his holidays in his own\nway\n\nFame and power are gifts that are\ndearly bought\n\nFavorite and conclusive answer of his\nclass--\"I know\"\n\nFear of losing a moment from business\n\nFinishes his sin thoroughly before he\nbegins to repent\n\nFortune sells what we believe she gives\n\nHer kindness, which never sleeps\n\nHouses are vessels which take mere\npassengers\n\nHubbub of questions which waited for no\nreply\n\nI make it a rule never to have any hope\n\nIgnorant of what there is to wish for\n\nLooks on an accomplished duty neither\nas a merit nor a grievance\n\nMake himself a name:  he becomes public\nproperty\n\nModeration is the great social virtue\n\nMore stir than work\n\nMy patronage has become her property\n\nNo one is so unhappy as to have nothing\nto give\n\nNot desirous to teach goodness\n\nNothing is dishonorable which is useful\n\nOur tempers are like an opera-glass\n\nPoverty, you see, is a famous\nschoolmistress\n\nPower of necessity\n\nPrisoners of work\n\nProgress can never be forced on without\ndanger\n\nQuestion is not to discover what will\nsuit us\n\nRicher than France herself, for I have\nno deficit in my budget\n\nRuining myself, but we must all have\nour Carnival\n\nSatisfy our wants, if we know how to\nset bounds to them\n\nSensible man, who has observed much and\nspeaks little\n\nSo much confidence at first, so much\ndoubt at las\n\nSullen tempers are excited by the\npatience of their victims\n\nThe happiness of the wise man costs but\nlittle\n\nThe man in power gives up his peace\n\nTwo thirds of human existence are\nwasted in hesitation\n\nVirtue made friends, but she did not\ntake pupils\n\nWe do not understand that others may\nlive on their own account\n\nWe are not bound to live, while we are\nbound to do our duty\n\nWhat have you done with the days God\ngranted you\n\nWhat a small dwelling joy can live\n\nYou may know the game by the lair\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 An Attic Philosopher in Paris by \u00c9mile Souvestre: The French Immortals: Quotes and Images","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":502}