A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. |
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. |
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. |
A person hears only what they understand. |
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. |
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. |
A purpose you impart is no longer your own. |
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. |
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form |
A thinking man’s greatest pleasure is to have searched for the knowable, and to have stood in awe before the unknowable. |
A useless life is an early death |
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others |
A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise |
After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow |
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. |