The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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