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- He
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
- Conversation
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
- More
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Give
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Life
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
- Educated
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- Being
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- Loved
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- Myself
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
One may be humble out of pride.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My trade and art is to live.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
- Image
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
- Doing Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
- Deemed
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- Nov 07, 2020
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
- Shame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
- Kingdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I fear most is fear.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020