70 quotes found
“Glory is the sunshine of the dead”
“Love is the poetry of the senses!”
“Reading brings us unknown friends”
“For avarice begins where poverty ends.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.”
“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”
“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how...”
“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will oft...”
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“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”
“Se ciascuno pensa solo a se stesso e non si fida che di se stesso, come volete che ci sia coraggio civile, dal momento che questa virt si basa sulla rinuncia a se stessi? Coraggio civile e coraggio...”
“Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.”
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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
