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Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

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.

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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