If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
From Jean de la Bruyere
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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