Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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