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- Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
- The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
- When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.