Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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