I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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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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