The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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 way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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