Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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