There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
At first we hope too much, later on, not enough.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade today it is the reverse
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
In youth one has tears without grief in age, griefs without tears
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
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