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ease good greater impediment others terms
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
behind fortune french-novelist great
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
answers pleasure greater
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
lying greatest-fear anticipation
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
doe martyr great-writers
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
mind great-minds virtue
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
passion ends great-passion
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
exist ideas moral seen society upright
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only
behind faces society
If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.