Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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