No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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