An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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If 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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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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