Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
It is always our inabilities that vex us.
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Work like you don't need the money.
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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