Sublime

Je choisis donc les noms des treize vertus qui me parurent alors nécessaires ou désirables, et ajoutai à chacune un bref précepte qui en exprimait tout le sens que je souhaitais lui donner.

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“The industry of that Franklin is superior to anything I ever saw of the kind; I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed.”

Franklin became an apostle of being—and, just as important, of appearing to be—industrious. Even after he became successful, he made a show of personally carting the rolls of paper he bought in a wheelbarrow down the street to his shop, rather than having a hired hand do it.4

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Comment se fait-il qu’un seau d’eau devienne vite fétide, tandis que l’eau solidifiée en glace reste à jamais excellente ? On dit volontiers que la même différence oppose les affections et l’intelligence.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

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