Long is the road from conception to completion.
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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