Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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My trade and art is to live.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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