A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart.
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Men’s minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Nothing succeeds like success.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
One’s work may be finished some day, but one’s education never.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
All for one, one for all.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
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