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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
Living requires but little life; doing requires much.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.