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- Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
- It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time…
- We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are…
- All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
- You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as…
- We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by…
- The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
- It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I…
- If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
- Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth…
- Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
- The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
- Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
- The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
- Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
- There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they…
- We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
- Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose…
- It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous…
- The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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