"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things."
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"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear."
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"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
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"It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."
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"Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in"
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?"
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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."
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"Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided."
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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
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"Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?"
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"Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything."
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"For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts."
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"Every man carries the entire form of human condition."
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"In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain."
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"The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own."
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"No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times."
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"Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!"
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"No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength."
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"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"
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