Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. |
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. |
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. |
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. |
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills |
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good |
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good |
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. |
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. |
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. |
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts. |
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them |
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence |
We love justice greatly, and just men but little |
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions |