One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Nothing succeeds like excess.
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
I can resist anything except temptation.
The real fool, such as the gods mock or mar, is he who does not know himself.
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.