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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
Death pays all debts.
Habit is second nature.
I do not teach. I relate.
Habit is a second nature.
Every movement reveals us.
God defend me from myself.
To philosophize is to doubt.
My trade and art is to live.
Books are a languid pleasure.
The thing I fear most is fear.
It needs courage to be afraid.
One may be humble out of pride.
Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)
My art and profession is to live.
Let every foot have its own shoe.
No man is a hero to his own valet.
I am myself the matter of my book.
He loves little who loves by rule.
And not to serve for a table-talk.
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
To smell, though well, is to stink.
We cannot fail in following nature.
To philosophize is to learn to die.
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
My appetite comes to me while eating.
What a man hates, he takes seriously.
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
A man may be humble through vainglory.
Few men are admired by their servants.
Only the fools are certain and assured.
You have your face bare; I am all face.
Men are nothing until they are excited.
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
I do not understand; I pause; I examine.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
The most universal quality is diversity.
Saying is one thing and doing is another
No noble thing can be done without risks.
God sends the cold according to the coat.
In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.
We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.
A man must become wise at his own expense.
We have power over nothing except our will.
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
