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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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