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Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
Making a book is a craft, as is making a clock; it takes more than wit to become an author.
Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor judgment to hold their tongues.
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
