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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the... →
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis... →
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the... →
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.