A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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