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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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