That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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.
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