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Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
Great events have sent before them their announcements.
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
There are some dead who are more alive than the living.
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
The true masters of the art of living are already happy.
She wavers, she hesitates; in one word — she is a woman.
I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.
Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.