More Quotes by Henri-Frédéric Blanc
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.
