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Wit is educated insolence.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

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

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.

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

O Love, O fire! once he drew

 

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

 

Why were we crucified into sex?

 

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.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

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

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

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. E. M.

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