The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Honor is external conscience, and conscience is internal honor.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying it in the concrete devotes himself entirely to money.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, and every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Life swings like a pendulum back and forth between pain and boredom.
All truth passes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.