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“אהבה אינה תרה אחר שלמות ואפילו יראה מפניה. אהבה מתענגת בשלמות שברא דמיונה.”
“התענוג יכול להתבסס על אשליה, אבל האושר רק על האמת.”
“אדם מגיע לכל גיל כשהוא חסר ניסיון לגיל הזה.”
“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.”
“There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
“It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.”
“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.”
“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.”
“When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.”
“It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.”
“Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?”
“The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.”
“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
“One must not hope to be more than one can be.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
“I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.”
“There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.”