Quote #9653
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important,...
Quote #11127
If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith,...
Quote #1836
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of...
Quote #2779
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane...
Quote #5423
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
Quote #13116
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out...
Quote #9547
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience...
Quote #1751
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.