Occupation: Surgeon Birth: April 26, 1780 Death: March 24, 1854
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving..
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful….
No labor is hopeless..
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing..
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home..
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions..
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough..
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions..
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers..
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained..
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good..
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natura….
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and r….
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex..
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness..
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments..
We love justice greatly, and just men but little..
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and p….
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes..
Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us..