A place for everything, everything in its place.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
The worst men often give the best advice.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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