“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them”
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“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison ”
“A mother who is really a mother is never free”
“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother”
“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work”
“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them”
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ”
“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out”
“Duty is ours; results are God's”
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner”
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
“Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses”
“To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties”
“You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony”
“A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized”
“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it ”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do”
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow”