He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Forgotten is forgiven.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Hope is a waking dream.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful, may be called intelligent indeed.
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music will not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot.
Fine behaviour is a joy in life, and a pleasant expression helps out of a difficulty in a remarkable way.
It is better to examine one's own faults than those of others.
Courage minimises difficulties.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...
Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.
It is the mark of the divine intellect to be always calculating something noble.
Be not suspicious towards all, but be cautious and firm.
So as the old rule, to know a fool from a wise man 'Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos, et videbis'.
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