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| Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws |
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| No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art |
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| No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly |
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| No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. |
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| Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. |
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| Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known |
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| Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. |
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| Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. |
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| Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. |
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| One must always have one's boots on and be ready to go. |
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| One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love |
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| Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t |
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| Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. |
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| Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. |
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| Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them. |
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