If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.
There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.
Many a truth is the result of an error.
The insignificant labor, the great create.
We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.
Runners are poor walkers.
Old age transfigures or fossilizes.
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
Many priceless things can be bought.
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.
When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.
Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction
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