If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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