Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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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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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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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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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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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