The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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