He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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