Occupation: Surgeon Birth: April 26, 1780 Death: March 24, 1854
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths..
Length of saying makes languor of hearing..
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough..
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate..
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise..
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them..
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation..
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree..
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent..
Certain names always awake certain prejudices..
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool..
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend..
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage..
Great souls are harmonious..
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment..
To love is to choose..
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired..
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy..
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappin….
Success causes us to be more praised than known..
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know..