We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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