Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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