Fear loves the idea of danger.
Justice is the right of the weakest.
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
To see the world is to judge the judges.
Our life is woven wind.
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.
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