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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude.