Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The 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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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