Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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