A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
Those who can command themselves command others.
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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