"Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God."
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"Men are nothing until they are excited."
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"One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart."
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"Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?"
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"A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man."
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"We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us."
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"I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself."
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"A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant."
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"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."
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"The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried."
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"Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me."
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"It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again."
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"I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear."
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"There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay."
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"It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements."
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"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, a study bearing fruit beyond price."
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"The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance."
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"Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head."
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"Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance."
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