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For our improvement we need a mirror.

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The truth can wait, for she lives a long life.

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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

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The presence of a thought is like the presence of a lover.

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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Essays

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The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

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That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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Treat a work of art like you would a prince: let it speak to you first.

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to become

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