I am tormented by temptations." "What kind? There is a cure for temptation." "What?" "Yielding to it.“ Le Pere Goriot
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
No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow. Thyestes
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
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