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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.
It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.