The thing I fear most is fear.
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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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 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 know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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