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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pl...  
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.  
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.  
Ambition is not a vice of little people.  
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.  
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodn...  
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet...  
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.  
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their ins...  
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.  
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and...  
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them luck...  
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?  
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his re...  
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.  
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we ...  
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will ...  
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a l...  
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.  
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.  
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated s...   Education
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.  
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find ...  
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be ex...  
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what t...  
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because...   Love
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a boo...  
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.  
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.  
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, r...  
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their ...  
Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy th...  
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.  
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.  
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business bet...  
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The d...  
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle...  
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get i...  
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.   Marriage
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happ...  
My trade and art is to live.  
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.  
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.  
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget...  
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.  
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.  
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of...  
One may be humble out of pride.  
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.  
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing ...  
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.  
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's...  
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world...  
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.  
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her stat...  
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre...  
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true cour...  
The thing I fear most is fear.  
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we ma...  
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.  
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play ...  
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.  
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I fi...  
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.  
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice ...  
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and...  
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whol...  
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agre...  
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.  
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much...  
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family ...  
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were slee...   Dreams
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.  
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wis...  
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the un...  
What do I know?  
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself ...