Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNECovetousness 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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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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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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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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