The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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