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“To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.”

“We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.”

“Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.”

“The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.”

“A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.”

“The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.”

“The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.”

“The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.”

“What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”

“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”

“Dare to think for yourself.”

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”