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- There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest…
- Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
- I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
- When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
- Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.
- Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
- 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…
- If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar…
- 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…
- Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
- "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…
- Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than…
- 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…
- If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a…
- There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
- I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.
- I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
- This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"
- It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the…
- Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
- It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
- We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's…
- Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
- Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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