There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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