He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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