Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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