Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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