In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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