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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.
Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.
I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself
All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.