“A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

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“Dreams are true interpreters of our inclinations, but there is art required to sort and understand them.”

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“Everything that we find in to be healthful to life can be called a medicine... it is the privilege of medicine to attribute to itself all the happy successes that happen to the patient; and, as to all the ill accidents, they absolutely disown in laying fault upon the patient”

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“Glory and curiosity are the two scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.”

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“It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.”

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“Nature has presented us with a large faculty of entertaining ourselves alone: and often calls us to it, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but chiefly and mostly to ourselves.”

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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

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“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”

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“When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? We mutually divert one another with our monkey-tricks.”

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