Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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