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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

One may be humble out of pride.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

My trade and art is to live.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

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.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

The thing I fear most is fear.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

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