Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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.
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