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3.8 · 36 votes · 170 reads
Society
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.3.4 · 50 votes · 161 reads
Feelings
Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.4.8 · 9 votes · 40 reads
Various
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.3.7 · 8 votes · 24 reads
Thought and Reason
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.3.8 · 5 votes · 34 reads
Various
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.3.5 · 59 votes · 166 reads
Thought and Reason
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.3.1 · 16 votes · 23 reads
Thought and Reason
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.4.0 · 13 votes · 64 reads
Thought and Reason
How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?4.0 · 47 votes · 197 reads
Thought and Reason
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.4.8 · 51 votes · 187 reads
Thought and Reason
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.4.9 · 42 votes · 163 reads
Thought and Reason
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.3.7 · 11 votes · 110 reads
Thought and Reason
I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.4.5 · 23 votes · 65 reads
Science and Technology
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so h5.0 · 40 votes · 27 reads
Thought and Reason
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.3.1 · 24 votes · 163 reads
Art and Culture
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.3.7 · 13 votes · 194 reads
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