Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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