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There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity...
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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and...
Quote #9988
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of...
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s...
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Quote #8742
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that...
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Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
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The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Quote #10098
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.