"As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs."
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"Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy"
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"All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind."
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"Every movement reveals us."
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"I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future."
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"Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures."
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"We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things."
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"I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero"
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"I quote others in order to better express myself."
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"In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up."
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"The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents"
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"If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame."
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"It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man."
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"Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society."
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"Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid."
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"Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation."
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"Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever."
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"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own."
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"I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world."
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"O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce."
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