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It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,
they are better critics than authors.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight ...

There is no cosmetic like happiness

Haste is always ungraceful.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

To appear rich, we become poor.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

There is no magician like love.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection ...

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.