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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.
A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.
You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.
We are not always even what we are most.
Most imitators attempt the inimitable.
To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.
Accident is veiled necessity.
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
Those whom we support hold us up in life.
Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.
Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
One thought cannot awake without awakening others.
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
Pity is love in undress.
Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.
Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.
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