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Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.
[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.
I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.