Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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