All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Youth has no age.
Why should poetry have to make sense?
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
It takes a long time to become young.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Knowledge is power.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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