The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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 prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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