Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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