There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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