A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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