There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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