Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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