There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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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