The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
The world is but a perennial ...
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.