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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence