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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.