Quotes 41 till 60 of 89.
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
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Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
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