There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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