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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Michel de Montaigne

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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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