Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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