Simplicity is a state of mind. Charles Wagner More Quotes by Charles Wagner More Quotes From Charles Wagner The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them. Charles Wagner views justice men Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge. Charles Wagner men knowledge When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state. Charles Wagner eye sight men Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. Charles Wagner rehabilitation intellectual evil A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. Charles Wagner simple wish men Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise. Charles Wagner selfish kindness world If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich Charles Wagner rich ifs people Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. Charles Wagner provision certain humanity If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment. Charles Wagner judging justice men Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation. Charles Wagner single-mom men memories Joy is not a thing, it is in us. Charles Wagner joy happiness
