There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
The intellect seeks, the heart finds.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
a woman's heart has no wrinkles.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.
I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
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