The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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 value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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