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“ From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well... ”

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

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