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Charles Wagner Quotes

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

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
Men, Views, Justice
Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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
Evil, Intellectual, Rehabilitation
Charles Wagner (1903). “Youth”

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Wagner
Knowledge, Men
Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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, Men, Sight
Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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
Kindness, Selfish, World

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, Men, Wish
Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.18, The Floating Press

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Charles Wagner
Simplicity, Mind, States
Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.18, The Floating Press

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Wagner
Humanity, Provision, Certain
Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.28, The Floating Press

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
People, Rich, Ifs
Charles Wagner (1903). “The Simple Life”

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
Men, Justice, Judging
Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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
Memories, Single Mom, Men

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

Charles Wagner
Happiness, Joy

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