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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.