 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1804 - 238 páginas
...imagination, contradictory desires, fiery passions, raise an intestine war, often attended with sad consequences. He who desires to guide himself by the...reason. is the pilot ; and an upright heart the helm. Each of us ought to erect a throne to the Deity, in his own heart ; otherwise it becomes a chaos, without... | |
 | 1814 - 454 páginas
...enemy's country : boiling blood, a wandering imagination, contradictory, fiery passions, raise sin intestine war, often attended^ by the most fatal consequences...at war, and agree only when enlightened reason is th« pilot, and an upright heart the helm. — Thus is man an object of admiration, or of pity according... | |
 | Maxims - 1852 - 242 páginas
...ourselves as men with other rational beings, could we know what we truly are, what position we occupy. He who desires to guide himself by the rules of wisdom...reason is the pilot and an upright heart the helm. As the blade of wheat whilst ungrown and empty holds itself proudly up, but so soon as the ear is filled... | |
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The man, conversant with himself, lives almost perpetually in an enemy's country : boiling blood, a wandering imagination, contradictory desires, fiery passions, raise an intestine war, often attended by the most fatal consequences. — He who desires... 