Posted by: Cheope
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality. The time has proven that scoundrels always succeed to prestigious tyrants.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
This evil fortune, which generally attends extraordinary men in the management of great affairs, has been imputed to divers causes, that need not be here set down, when so obvious a one occurs, if what a certain writer observes be true, that when a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Sad eyes never lie.
This life is a whore and she'll probably break my heart, but shit, I'm in love. This is how it works, rhum and pear, because there are some strong moments that leave a sour flavour in the mouth, and others that are so nice to make you forget that bad back-flavour that life has.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
I leave to others the conviction of being the best, for myslef I keep the certainty that in life you can always get better.