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- Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
- I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
- Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
- It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on…
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
- Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary…
- I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is…
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
- Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
- 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…
- We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
- There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment…
- Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
- He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
- 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…
- The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest…
- Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
- The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
- What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our…
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