I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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 know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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