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.
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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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