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- My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I…
- He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
- The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
- The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only…
- Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
- Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him…
- Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from…
- Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I…
- True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet…
- Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
- The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but…
- But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and…
- God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
- When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her…
- Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
- It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him…
- It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years…
- To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
- From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
- The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
- He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
- In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.
- Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
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