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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

How wise must one be to be always kind.

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

There are very few honest friends
the demand is not particularly great.

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

There is only one proof of ability - action.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Runners are poor walkers.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

Those whom we support hold us up in life.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

Pity is love in undress.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

N every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Many a truth is the result of an error.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Conquer, but never triumph.

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.