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Reading means borrowing.
Too much is unwholesome.
Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
Delicacy in woman is strength.
Ideas too are a life and a world.
Those who never have time do least
As nations improve, so do their gods.
God: personified incomprehensibility.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
They do not think, therefore they are not.
Ambition and suspicion always go together.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
In every man there is something of all men.
He who understands the wise is wise already.
God creates the animals, man creates himself.
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.
Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?
To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.
A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.
Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
One has to do something new in order to see something new.
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.