There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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