Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

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Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

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