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    Madame de Staël
    “We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”
    ― Madame De Stael
    tags: death
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    Anthony Ashley Cooper
    “Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their standard, and imagine nothing so barbarous or savage but what is contrary to the manners of their own time.”
    ― Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “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.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, lifelong-learning, philosophy, socrates
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    Madame de Staël
    “One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.”
    ― Madame De Stael
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    David Hume
    “the Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy.”
    ― David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    David Hume
    “There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.”
    ― David Hume
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    David Hume
    “What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.”
    ― David Hume
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    David Hume
    “All knowledge degenerates into probability.”
    ― David Hume
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    Madame de Staël
    “We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
    ― Madame de Stael, Ten Years of Exile
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    1773 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
    ― Montaigne, Les Essais
    tags: books
    744 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, philosophy, wisdom
    383 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: reason-education
    243 likes

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    Madame de Staël
    “Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”
    ― Madame de Stael
    tags: courtesy, thoughts
    43 likes

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    Madame de Staël
    “Men do not change. They unmask themselves.”
    ― Madame de Stael
    tags: change
    14 likes

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    Madame de Staël
    “The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress made in spirals.”
    ― Madame de Stael
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    Alexander Pope
    “A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted
    712 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: misattributed-to-alexander-pope, misattributed-to-dorothy-parker
    176 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “Our judgments, like our watches, none
    go just alike, yet each believes his own”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
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  • #24
    Alexander Pope
    “Be not the first by whom the new are tired, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: change, innovation, technology
    1 likes



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