To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy like the joys afforded by art or life.

Not far from our house and opposite the old church with the golden cross stood a large building even larger than the church and having many towers.

I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.

When you are right you cannot be too radical, when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

While the State exists there can be no freedom, when there is freedom there will be no State.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

You have to act well to receive His approbation When the curtain falls

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

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