The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
Long is the road from conception to completion.
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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