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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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There is nothing more notable in 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 lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

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Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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Puesto que Dios nos concede tiempo para disponer de nuestro desalojo, preparémonos, hagamos el equipaje, despidámonos a tiempo de la compañía, desembaracémonos de esas violentas ataduras que nos retienen en otro sitio y nos alejan de nosotros mi...

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Debemos reservarnos una trastienda del todo nuestra, del todo libre, donde fijar nuestra verdadera libertad y nuestro principal retiro y soledad. En ella debemos mantener nuestra habitual conversación con nosotros mismos, y tan privada que no tenga ...

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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

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How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

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Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

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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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