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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

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A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.

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I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.

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The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

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If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and fo...more

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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

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The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a...more

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Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived,or by...more