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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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