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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

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My trade and art is to live.

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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

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

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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 28th, 1533

Died: September 13th, 1592

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