Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando famous quotes

Decency renders all things tolerable.
-- Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

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Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.
-- Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

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Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.
-- Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

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In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.
-- Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

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Is there decency left in American politics?

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

And die with decency.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest