"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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"He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying."
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"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 ages, why do we not instruct them in it?"
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"The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live."
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"I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well."
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"It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other."
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"We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out."
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"One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there."
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"The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us."
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"Habit is a second nature."
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"Few men are admired by their servants."
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"No noble thing can be done without risks."
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"We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance."
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"The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty."
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""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 can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I."
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"Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?"
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"Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul."
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"Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new."
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"Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag."
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"Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep."
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