Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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