Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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