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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
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To philosophize is to doubt.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
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