It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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