He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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 good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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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 study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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