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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. - [Memory] Men become old, but they never become good. - [Aging] Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action. - [Thought] Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. - [Missionaries] Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we dislike. - [Morality] Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. - [Memory] Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - [Thought] Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. - [Common Sense] No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. - [Vulgarity] No man is rich enough to buy back his past. - [Wealth] No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - [Beauty] Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. - [Calmness] Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. - [Speech] Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors live like married men. - [Bachelors] Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. - [Intelligence] One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. - [Kindness] One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. - [Learning] One should play fairly when one has the winning cards. - [Cards] One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. - [Life] Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - [Breakfast] Only the shallow know themselves. - [Character] Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - [Soul] Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. - [Imitation] People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. - [Wisdom] Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. - [Philosophy] Displaying page 4 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8
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