Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.
The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.
Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
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