Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Too much virtue can be criminal.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.