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- All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
- The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
- For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and…
- 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…
- Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.
- "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I…
- Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.
- 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
- I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
- I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero
- When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? When I play with my…
- My appetite comes to me while eating.
- And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of…
- I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
- May God defend me from myself.
- If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out…
- As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine…
- Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once…
- If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
- 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…
- No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
- It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
- 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…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale