“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible”
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“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible”
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in”
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors”
“We rise in glory as we sink in pride”
“Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket”
“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate”
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”
“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must”
“Imagination governs the world”
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings”
“So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date”
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months”
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new”
“Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent”
“What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive”
“The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another”
“Men willingly believe what they wish”