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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
To know how to live is my trade and my art.
Time steals away without any inconvenience.
No man profiteth but by the loss of others.
Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
When we have got it, we want something else.
The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
All general judgments are loose and imperfect
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
I quote others in order to better express myself.
To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
To understand via the heart is not to understand.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.
There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.
The continuous work of our life is to build death.
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.