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In the last scene, between death and ourselves, there is no more pretending: we must speak plain French.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach the...
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they 'artialize' nature.
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I want Death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth...
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I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
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I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myse...
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indi...
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, build...
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth ...
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Bees plunder the flowers here and there, but afterward they make of them honey, which is all theirs; it is no longer thyme or marjoram. Even s...
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As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
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At the stumbling of a horse, the fall of a tile, the slightest pin prick, let us promptly chew on this: Well, what if it were death itself? An...
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but the list and rec...
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual o...
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey.
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
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A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
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