Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.Nicolas de Chamfort
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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