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To love is to choose.
No labor is hopeless.
Great souls are harmonious.
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.