How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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