I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNERejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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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 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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