Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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