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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Michel de Montaigne

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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