The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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