My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEven from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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 prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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