Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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 perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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