55 quotes found
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”
“A modest man never talks of himself.”
“Love and friendship exclude each other.”
“He who has lived a day has lived an age.”
“Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.”
“The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.”
“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”
“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”
“When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.”
“There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ”
“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.”
“The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.”
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”
“We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.”
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.”
“Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.”
“The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.”
“It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.”
“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.”
“It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile? ”
“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.”
“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”
