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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

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Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

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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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We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

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To philosophize is to doubt.

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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

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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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