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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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