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 MONTAIGNECovetousness 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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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