"We are asleep until we fall in love" — Leo Tolstoi

Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones

Source: Letter to James Welch (Apr. 7, 1799)

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

Source: A Woman of No Importance (1893)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Source: Artemis to Actaeon, Vesalius in Zante (1909)

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