It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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