A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere 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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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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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