A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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