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- The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
- Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal…
- You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really…
- There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of…
- Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
- ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in…
- I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks…
- The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought…
- A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
- Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
- Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in…
- There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to…
- There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
- The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many…
- There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
- You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
- There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
- The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to…
- Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how…
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