It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.
Love truth, and pardon error.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.