We only labor to stuff the memory and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and vo

We only labor to stuff the memory and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

In nine lifetimes you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.