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- Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person…
- It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
- Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those…
- In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of…
- If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so,…
- I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am…
- I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
- Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see…
- When we have got it, we want something else.
- Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
- One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.
- I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
- I want death to find me planting my cabbage.
- Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become…
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