"A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed."
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"We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways."
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"The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance."
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"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well."
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"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
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"Men are most apt to believe what they least understand."
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"Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience."
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"The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience."
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"Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all."
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"Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people."
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"Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?"
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me."
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"It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him."
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"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."
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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."
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"Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us."
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"Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it."
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"Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.""
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"He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat."
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