There is a universal law that commands that we shall be born and we shall die.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
What happens to one man may happen to all.
He who is quick to judge is quick to repent.
You must expect to be treated by others as you yourself have treated them.
No crime without law.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Destiny beats the cards but we will play them.
Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Remember to live!
An unhappy nation makes great artists.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
He who repents is twice unhappy or twice impotent.
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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His whole life's bright career was love.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Yet it is better to accept public morals and human vices calmly without bursting into either laughter or tears.
It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love—Plus many mysteries.
What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.
A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due order. Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.
There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
It would seem that our actions have lucky or unlucky stars to which they owe a great part of the blame or praise which is given them.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
To establish ourselves in the world we do everything to appear as if we were established.
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
Whatever difference there appears in our fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and evil which renders them equal.
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