Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.
A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.
Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
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