“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
“We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”
“Imaginary evils are incurable.”
“The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.”
“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.”
“Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.”
“Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.”
“Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.”
“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.”
“Conquer, but don’t triumph.”
“To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.”
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.”
“So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.”
“Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.”
“Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.”
“If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.”
“Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.”
“He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.”
“Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.”
“None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don’t know how to make use of the old ones.”
“Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.”
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