There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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I 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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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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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.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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