When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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