Who longs in solitude to live, Ah soon his wish will gain Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah soon his wish will gain Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man.
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others.
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her she is just looking for a consistent man.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
It matters little whether a man be mathematically, or philologically, or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
But by gods and men are unrequited:
For ye love not,--ne'er have learnt to love!
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day.
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