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Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.
Pure truth is for God alone.
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!
It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.
Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.
Borrowing is not much better than begging.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.
The gift of prayer is not always at our command.
The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.
When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.
The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.
It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.
The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.
But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.
The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.