The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
Accident is veiled necessity.
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.
A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.
However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
In this world, all power rests upon force.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Conquer but never triumph.
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.
The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.
New happiness too must be learned to bear.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
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