A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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