Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Category Archive: 1788
Memory, in widow’s weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.