Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
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.
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.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
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