The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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