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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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