FridayJan 09, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage, Always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the Bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.
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