A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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Even 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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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