Quote #6869
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Quote #14431
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an...
Quote #29797
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with...
Quote #4523
Nothing can be created from nothing.
Quote #31731
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Quote #32744
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by...
Quote #29930
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money...
Quote #14158
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly...
Quote #1735
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.