I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

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In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty...

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty...

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them...

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them...

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their...

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their...

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can...

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can...

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before...

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before...

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in...

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in...

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which...

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which...

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the...

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the...

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable...

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable...

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in...

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in...

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my...

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my...

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through,...

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through,...

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His...

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His...

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would...

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would...

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought...

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought...

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered...

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered...

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my...

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my...

I don't conquer, I submit.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.