There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
To see the world is to judge the judges.
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
Justice is the right of the weakest.
Our life is woven wind.
The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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