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Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.
But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.
Every shot that kills ricochets.
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
