Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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