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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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