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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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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