The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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