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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
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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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
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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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Beautiful Open Raedymall Soul Thing Universal
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
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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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
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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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote

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