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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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One may be humble out of pride.

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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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