Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.
So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
One spares old people just as one spares children.
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.
Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.
One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.
Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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