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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Boufflers

Conscience is the living law, and honor is to this law what piety is to religion.

Constancy is a saint without a worshiper.

Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing.

How beautiful is victory, but how dear!

How grand is victory, but how dear!

If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals.

It is not advice, but approval, which we crave.

Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels.

Morality has need, that it may be well received, of the mask of fable and the charm of poetry; truth pleases less when it is naked; and it is the only virgin whom we best like to see a little clothed.

Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lasting perfume.

The greatest of all pleasures is to give pleasure to one whom we love.

The higher we rise the more isolated we become; and all elevations are cold.

The warrior who cultivates his mind polishes his arms.

The zero of friendship’s thermometer.