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Wit is educated insolence.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

 

The Oklahoma Ligno and Lithograph Co Weeps at a nude by Michael Angelo.

 

A delicate wit is a corruption which a nation takes a long time to acquire. It is only worn-out nations that possess it.

That which probably hears more stupidities than anything else in the world is a painting in a museum.

A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son’s age.

Spend all you have for loveliness, / Buy it and never count the cost; / For one white singing hour of peace / Count many a year of strife well lost, / And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art....

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

WHAT DRAWS PEOPLE TO BE FRIENDS IS THAT THEY SEE THE SAME TRUTH. THEY SHARE IT.