"A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers."
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"A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion."
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"There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation."
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"If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?"
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"There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine."
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"Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape."
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"Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them."
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"There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear."
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"Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass."
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"If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said."
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"Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit."
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"Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have."
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"If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me."
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"The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly."
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"I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth."
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"The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty."
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"Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?"
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"Cowardice is the mother of cruelty."
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"Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them."
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"The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change."
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