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334 quotes about wisdom.
As for my frenzy for work, I will compare it to an attack of herpes.
To get drunk with ink is more worth while than to get drunk with brandy.
In short, LIVING seems to me a business for which I was not made, and yet...!
In all weathers, wet or fine, it is my practice to go, towards five o’clock in the evening, to take a turn in the Palais Royal.
If the weather be too cold or too wet, I take shelter in the Regency coffee-house.
Nowhere in the world do they play chess so skilfully as in Paris, and nowhere in Paris as they do at this coffee-house.
My mind is no better than another's, but I have been lucky enough to chance on certain ways, which have led me to a certain method by means of which it seems to me that I may by degrees augment my knowledge to the modest measure of my intellect and my length of days.
Centaur, fear for thy life!