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Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.
Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!
The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.
Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'
I broke down all conclusions into illusions and confusions.
Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.
Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]
The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.
To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?
Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.
Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.
Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.