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| There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. | | Patience | |
| There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing of which men are so fond, and withal so careless, as life | | Uncategorized | |
| They that have lived a single day have lived an age. | | Uncategorized | |
| This great misfortune / to be incapable of solitude. | | Uncategorized | |
| Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity | | Uncategorized | |
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| To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. | | Uncategorized | |
| To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else | | Uncategorized | |
| Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings | | Uncategorized | |
| Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty | | Mind | |
| We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. | | Uncategorized | |
| We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. | | Uncategorized | |
| We come too late to say anything which has not been said already | | Uncategorized | |
| We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death | | Uncategorized | |
| We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all | | Happiness | |
| We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it | | Faults; Men | |
| We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice | | Speech | |
| We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. | | Power | |
| When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman | | Books; Feelings | |
