I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative, when they are only stupid.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Do not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends or cannot acquire knowledge.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things, than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

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