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«Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves»
«One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.»
«There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!»
«They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.»
«The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.»
«Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.»
«But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.»