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Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.
Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.
Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.
We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.
No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow.
Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.
I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.
People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers
All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.
Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.
the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.