Tell the truth and shame the devil.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
All art is quite useless.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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.
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