Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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 good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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