It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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