The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNERejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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