Sadness multiplies itself. Let us then do our duty and make merry!
Even a Scot can make something good - if we catch him young.
Not even for the sake of ingenuity should you expose yourself in an unfavorable light, the interlocutors will laugh heartily at your history, but sometimes they might remember it and laugh again - at you, this time.
The critic's dilemma: either I offend the author by telling him the truth, or I lie to him and humiliate myself.
For great and noble spirits, curiosity is the first and last passion.
For the poet there is nothing useless.
To such a small creature as man, small things are worthless. Only by giving importance to small things do we reach the great art of suffering less and enjoying more.
For art and perseverance few things are unattainable.
Goodness is in our power; passion - no.
Confidence in yourself is the first mandatory condition for great initiatives.
The proof shows us in what direction we should focus our doubts.
By thinking long about some works, the public learns to think about them correctly.
If it were not for imagination, we would feel as happy in the arms of a maid as in the arms of a duchess.
If pain were not followed by pleasure, who would bear it?
If your friend says that there is no difference between virtue and vice, you might want to check the number of teaspoons after he leaves.
If you write twice about the same topic, you will contradict yourself willy-nilly.
If you have no occupation, avoid solitude; if you are alone, don't waste your time.
If you want to offend an uneducated person, don't call him a scoundrel; better call it bad manners.
If you want to love for a long time, love with your reason, not your heart.
If man does not make acquaintances in life, at some point he will find himself alone.
If a person is tired of London, it means that he is tired of life.
If a young man or a middle-aged man cannot remember where he left his hat when he leaves, no one will notice, but if the same happens to a man of respectable age, people will pick up shrug and say, "Yeah, my memory is really bad."
There are people who can't tear themselves away from their youth all their lives.
There are people we would cut ties with for good, but we don't want them to do the same.
Desires are necessary for life to be always in motion.
Life is that pill you can't swallow unless it's coated in gold.
Life is a march from one desire to another, and not from possession to possession.
To live is to progress continuously.
Envy is a permanent necessity of reason, which seldom yields to the treatment of culture and philosophy.
"Tomorrow" is a great liar, and his lie never loses its charm of novelty.