Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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