It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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