Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
My life is a struggle.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Better is the enemy of good.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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