The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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