If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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