"I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man."
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"If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires."
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"He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all."
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"What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear."
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"There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint."
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"Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman."
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"There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions."
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"Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it."
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"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."
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"All general judgments are loose and imperfect"
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"Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition."
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"After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice."
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"We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him."
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"The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge."
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"A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment."
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"If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself."
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"Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after."
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"A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself."
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"The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious."
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"He who lives not to others, lives little to himself."
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