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Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. - [Passion] Pity is love in undress. - [Pity] Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. - [Vanity] The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. - [Imagination] The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humor, curiosity, and self-importance. - [Sympathy] The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. - [Understanding] The wise man is seldom prudent. - [Wisdom] There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great. - [Friendship] There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. - [Love] There is only one proof of ability,--action. - [Action] There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar needs feel a certain respect for those who confide in him. - [Trust] They understand but little who understand only what can be explained. - [Understanding] To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much impossible. - [Contentment] Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. - [Wishes] We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth. - [Worth] We should always forgive,--the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own. - [Forgiveness] We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. - [Patience] What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. - [Beauty] When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. - [Opportunity] Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? - [Vanity] Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. - [Wit] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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