When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset MaughamMots clés friendship character
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset MaughamThe new-born child does not realize that his body is more a part of himself than surrounding objects, and will play with his toes without any feeling that they belong to him more than the rattle by his side; and it is only by degrees, through pain, that he understands the fact of the body. And experiences of the same kind are necessary for the individual to become conscious of himself; but here there is the difference that, although everyone becomes equally conscious of his body as a separate and complete organism, everyone does not become equally conscious of himself as a complete and separate personality.... It is such that he, as little conscious of himself as the bee in a hive, who are lucky in life, for they have the best chance of happiness: their activities are shared by all, and their pleasures are only pleasures because they are enjoyed in common.... It is because of them that man has been called a social animal.
W. Somerset MaughamHer tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
W. Somerset MaughamWe are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset MaughamThe love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned
W. Somerset MaughamIt’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset MaughamOnly a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset MaughamMots clés writing on-writing
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.
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در زندگي آنچه تحمل پذير نيست، رنجهايي است كه ديگران ميكشند و در ظاهر علتي ندارد
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