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To understand via the heart is...

To understand via the heart is not to understand.

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Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'...

Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette Г  l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensГ©es, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)

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The art of dining well is no s...

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure.

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One man may have some special ...

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

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Men of simple understanding, l...

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

It is far more probable that o...

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

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Death pays all debts....

Death pays all debts.

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The births of all things are w...

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

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That is why Bias jested with t...

That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: 'Shut up,' he said, 'so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

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And therefore, Reader, I mysel...

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell:

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Man (in good earnest) is a mar...

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

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To compose our character is ou...

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

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I had rather complain of ill-f...

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

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There is no desire more natura...

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

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Such as are in immediate fear ...

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

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Since we cannot match it let u...

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

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Since philosophy is the art wh...

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

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I would like to suggest that o...

I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great schola

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Their pupils and their little ...

Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]

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And I loathe people who find i...

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....