Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.