The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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 good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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