Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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