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Men are better than this theology.
Our thinking is a pious reception.
To survive, you must tell stories.
Books always speak of other books.
Translation is the art of failure.
Worry is forethought gone to seed.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
A great large book is a great evil.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Wise men are not wise at all times.
Women see through Claude Lorraines.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
One idea lights a thousand candles.
Every time you wink the stars move.
A man's library is a sort of harem.
Sorrow makes us all children again.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
Ability without honor has no value.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Humility is the secret of the wise.
We may be partial, but Fate is not.
The dearest events are summer-rain.
The eye of prudence may never shut.
The rain comes when the wind calls.
The hero is suffered to be himself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Look what a little vain dust we are!
Nothing makes men sharper than want.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
We change whether we like it or not.
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
When it's dark enough men see stars.
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
Our expenses are all for conformity.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
What we call results are beginnings.
Society does not love its unmaskers.
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Language is the archives of history.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
The key to every man is his thought.
People say law but they mean wealth.
Beauty without expression is boring.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.