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The universe is the externalization of the soul.
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.
A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
The street is full of humiliations to the proud.
Moderation in all things, especially moderation.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
Great men exist that there might be greater men.
The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.
Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
There is a great amity between designing and art.
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.
If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
I admire answers to which no answers can be made.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.