In this world, all power rests upon force.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.
With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.
If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
New happiness too must be learned to bear.
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
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