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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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