"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
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"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
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"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance."
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"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."
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"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
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"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution."
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"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"Liberty consists in doing what one desires."
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"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."
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"Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor."
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
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"If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible."
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
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"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
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"The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible."
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"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence."
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