There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. |
There is nothing of which men are so fond, and withal so careless, as life |
They that have lived a single day have lived an age. |
This great misfortune / to be incapable of solitude. |
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity |
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker |
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. |
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else |
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings |
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty |
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. |
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. |
We come too late to say anything which has not been said already |
We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death |
We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all |