I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Covetousness 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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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