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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.

One may be humble out of pride.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.