Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
To love is to choose.
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
No labor is hopeless.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.
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