Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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