An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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