Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
One thought cannot awake without awakening others.
Those whom we support hold us up in life.
Pity is love in undress.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
Most imitators attempt the inimitable.
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
Conquer, but don't triumph.
He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.
If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
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