Accident is veiled necessity.
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.
A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.
However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
In this world, all power rests upon force.
The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
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.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.
The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
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.
New happiness too must be learned to bear.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
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