Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will in general become of no more value than their dress.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

This is the very worst wickedness that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it, and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise, begin.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

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