Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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