The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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