The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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