ThursdayFeb 19, 2026
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Write your masterpieces! And do not forget that in our profession there is no middle state; you must be kingor be only a laborer.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent idealsthat is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
The house is turned entirely upside down when the hen crows and the cock is silent.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, And to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.
God is the poet, men are but the actors.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Evil is a form of good, of which the results are not immediately manifest.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
When a husband and wife have got each other, the devil only knows which has got the other.
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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