The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There 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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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