Work is making a living out of being bored.
It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.
If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.
I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.