Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The thing I fear most is fear.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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