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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
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"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."

"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."

"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."

"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."

"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."

"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
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