Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. A Woman of No Importance
You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes. Parerga and Paralipomena
“A prince ought also to show himself a patron of ability, and to honour the proficient in every art.” The Prince
On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. Book VIII
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