Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ernest Legouve

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a dramatist Ernest Legouve.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Ernest Legouve
Ernest Legouve
Dramatist
February 14, 1807 - March 14, 1903
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy. — © Ernest Legouve
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
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