It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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