Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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