Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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