Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Then I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

The sadness will last forever.

Love is of all passions the strongest for it attacks simultaneously the head the heart and the senses.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.

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