Quote #25

C'est une epineuse entreprise, et plus qu'il ne semble, de suivre une allure si vagabonde que celle de notre esprit; de penetrer les profondeurs opaques de ses replis internes; de choisir et arreter tant de menus de ses agitations.

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  1. There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
  2. Mon metier et mon art, c'est vivre.
  3. La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir etre a soi.
  4. The easy, gentle, and sloping path...is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
  5. L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soimeme.
  6. When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?
  7. Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
  8. The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt …

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