The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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