A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Poor humanity!- so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
There is a transcendent power in example.
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
We are rich only through what we give.
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
Youth should be a savings bank.
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