It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
~ Mark Twain
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Monthly Archives: January 2005
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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
~ Marcel Proust
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We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.
~ Marcel Proust
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La difficulté d’écrire l’anglais m’est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l’on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!
~ Charles Dickens
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
~ Albert Camus
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
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