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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.


I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.


Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.


It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.


No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.


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