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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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