To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.
Truth is a necessary phantom.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
The older we become, the more certain our future.
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
Reading civilized the inner life.
If the current is right, one can drift to success.
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.
Truth usually stammers at first.
We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.
I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.
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