Authors' promises are like lovers' vows.
Paradise Lost is a book that if you close once, it is very difficult to open it a second time.
Praise and flattery - two welcoming hosts; only the former serves its guest abundantly, and the latter intoxicates him.
The world is so constructed that the overseers of slaves cry out loudest about freedom.
The poet can sing of many women whom he is afraid to marry.
I live a party life not so much because I love society as because I avoid myself.
The superiority of some people is purely accidental. They are big because those around them are too small.
Prejudices have no rational causes and therefore cannot be refuted by rational arguments.
Example always has a stronger influence than sermon.
Explanations are often necessary - only that it is a mandatory necessity.
Nature has endowed woman with enormous power, and therefore it is not surprising that laws limit her power.
The reason for our misfortunes does not lie in the crushing blow of fate, but in the small everyday problems.
The request addressed by the timid, by people who do not trust themselves, is easily rejected, since the petitioner himself doubts its appropriateness.
It would be good if at least some were happy, and not nobody, as would have happened in the case of full equality.
The chains of habit are usually too weak to be felt until they become too strong to be broken.
The discussion between an old man and a young man usually ends in contempt and pity from both sides.
Diversity is an inexhaustible source of pleasure.
The most successful conversation is the one whose details are forgotten the next day.
Ambition is more arrogant than blindness; it does not hide our own failures, but only convinces us that these failures are not visible from one side.
Family happiness is the limit of the most ambitious thoughts.
Anger is one of the forms of anger.
Dictionaries are like watches. Even the worst ones are better than nothing, and even the best ones you can't expect absolute accuracy.
The advice is offensive, not because it shows us a mistake he has noticed, but because others, it seems, know us no less than we know ourselves.
It would seem that everything that was done skillfully, was done easily - is this why the hand of the skilled artist remains in the shadows?
The third age is usually the age of boasting and a tendency to exaggerate past events and actions.
Is life worth living? This is a question for embryos not men.
Shame is the fear of men, conscience is the fear of God.
Marriage hides in itself a lot of suffering, but celibacy does not hide in itself any pleasure.
Happiness means nothing if you don't have someone to share it with, if it doesn't inspire envy.
Because once upon a time only men could write, all the misfortunes of the world were attributed to women.