The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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