Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.
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There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.
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Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.
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It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
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