The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-08-28
DUMAS GOLDEN RULES.
Tho Authors Prescription For Health
Wealth and Wisdom.

OUMRS' oOIUEN hOlESs
Tho Authors Prescription For Health
Wealth and Wisdom.
Walk two hours every day; sleep
seven hours every night; go to bed
always alone if you need to sleep;
get up rs soon as you wake; work
as soon as you get up; eat only
when you are hungry and drink
only when you are thirsty, and eat
and drink always slowly.
Never speak except when it is neo-
essary and never say more than half
of what you think. Never write any
thing that you cannot sign, and
never do anything that you cannot
avow. Never forget that others will
count upon you, and, that ycn must
fever count upon them. Value Mon
ey at its real worth. neither more
, nor less. 1t is q good servant, but a
bad master.
Keep away from women until you
are 20 and avoid them when you are
40. Never attempt to produce any
thing without a thorough under
standing of that which you under
take and destroy as little as possible
Pardon everybody beforehand to be
on the safe side. Do not despise
! men. Do not hate them and do not
laugh at them beyond measure. Pity
them.
Think of death every morning
when you SEQ the light and every
evening on the approach of dark
moss. When your sufferings are
great, look your grief in the face. It
will console you itself and teach you
something. Try to be simple, to be-
come useful, to remain free, and be-
fore denying God wait until some
body proves to you that he does not
exist.
For man and for a woman there
is succession of duties to be fulfill
ed which enables them to look al
ways ahead and to become accus-
| toned to the absence Of the objects
of their most dear affections. The
world would finish too quickly if the
first child was not able to survive
the death of tho first mother.
/ Misfortunes and trials attack no.
BILE souls without hurting them.
They are like the rocks of granite
that the sea covers in times of tenn
pest with it's furious waves, fancy
ing that it is drowning them, while
it is merely washing them, SO that
they reappear again in the sunlight
moro polished and more shining
than ever. Adversely embellishes
those that it cannot cast down. By
the law of nature a man should have
many children. He should raise them
we'll, 80 that they may be useful,
and he should love them so that they
may be happy.
To get married when a man is
young is healthy. To choose, in no
matter what class, good, honest
girl; to love her with all his heart
and soul and to make her q reliable
companion and a prolific mother; to
work to raise his children and to
leave them when dying the exam
pie of his life-that is the true mean
ing and object of life. The rest is
only error, crime or folly.
In truth, the average man is only
above ambient humanity on one
single plane, virtue, and as there
can be no virtue without humility
those alone have the right tocon-
slider themselves the superiors Of
others to whom the knowledge that
they are superior is denied. Talent,
and especially its higher form called
genius, is Involuntary. It is not the
result of the efforts of man. It is,
like beauty, the gift of God. That is
why it is of secondary order, and
posterity will only remember it for
its virtue, its sincerity and its COM
. munion in universal progress. Glory
for glory's sake is shameful specu-
1ation.
!, The men who rejoice in their &C.
lebrity are simpletons. The mon
who are proud Of their genius are
fools.
There is one thing that is especial.
~ beautiful in great and pure affec.
tions, and that is that, after the
pleasure which they afford has pass.
ed away, there remains the happi.
ness of their recollection.
Very often an unexpected grief OF
, an unmerited misfortune gives to
, man an energy and perseverance
which he could never find in happi
ness. And after such trials mar
; often becomes superior who would
have remained simple and vulgar il
he had always been happy. He who
: is without energy when young vii
5 never have it. Grit is not a winter
. fruit. It never grows in the snow.
One may expect everything from
/ man of energy to whom misfortune
4 has given courage and ambition
: Alexandra Dumas Fills in Paris Fl
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