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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.






Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.






It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.






Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.






If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.






What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.






Faith: not wanting to know what is true.






The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.






Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.






The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.






Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.






God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.






Hatred is settled anger.






Only the educated are free.






No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.






By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.






A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.






Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.






The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.






We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.






Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.






Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!






There is no harm in repeating a good thing.






Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.






Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.






An index is a great leveller.






We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.






Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.






Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.










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