I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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My trade and art is to live.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Once 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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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