The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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 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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than 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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My trade and art is to live.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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