Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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