We must be doing something to be happy.
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we p...
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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