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

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Philosophy is doubt.

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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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We need but little learning to live happily.

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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at ...more

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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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Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.

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J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

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L'honneste est stable et permanent.

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D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

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Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

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L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

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