Posted by: Francesca Nacca
A mask tells us more than a face.
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A mask tells us more than a face.
A sense of duty is like some horrible disease. It destroys the tissues of the mind, as certain complaints destroy the tissues of the body. The catechism has a great deal to answer for.
Passion is the natural climax of friendship.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
All things that are modern come, sooner or later, to pass.
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now.