Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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