It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.
A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
All general judgments are loose and imperfect
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
Time steals away without any inconvenience.
It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
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